Project Submission - Weather Service Assignment

Instructions

Write an HTTP server that serves the current weather. Your server should expose an endpoint that:

1. Accepts latitude and longitude coordinates

2. Returns the short forecast for that area for Today (“Partly Cloudy” etc)

3. Returns a characterization of whether the temperature is “hot”, “cold”, or “moderate” (use your discretion on mapping temperatures to each type)

4. Use the National Weather Service API Web Service as a data source.

The purpose of this exercise is to provide a sample of your work that we can discuss together in the Technical Interview.

· We respect your time. Spend as long as you need, but we intend it to take around an hour.

· We do not expect a production-ready service, but you might want to comment on your shortcuts.

· The submitted project should build and have brief instructions so we can verify that it works.

· You may write in whatever language or stack you're most comfortable in, but the technical interviewers are most familiar with Typelevel Scala.

Prereqs for Testing and Running

1. Create a virtual environment

   python3 -m venv venvdir

2. Start virtual environment

   source venvdir/bin/activate

3. Install requirements pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Running Server

1. Start Flask

   python3 -m flask --app=weather_server.py run

2. Naviage to index page in a browser to see app information

   http://127.0.0.1:5000

3. Navigate to forecast page via the /forecast/{latitude},{longitude} endpoint

   http://127.0.0.1:5000/forecast/39.7456,-97.0892

Running Tests

1. Run pytest from the root of the WeatherServer directory

   pytest tests