API Project: Timestamp Microservice
User Stories :
- The API endpoint is
GET [project_url]/api/timestamp/:date_string?
- A date string is valid if can be successfully parsed by
new Date(date_string)
.
Note that the unix timestamp needs to be an integer (not a string) specifying milliseconds.
In our test we will use date strings compliant with ISO-8601 (e.g. "2016-11-20"
) because this will ensure an UTC timestamp.
- If the date string is empty it should be equivalent to trigger
new Date()
, i.e. the service uses the current timestamp.
- If the date string is valid the api returns a JSON having the structure
{"unix": <date.getTime()>, "utc" : <date.toUTCString()> }
e.g. {"unix": 1479663089000 ,"utc": "Sun, 20 Nov 2016 17:31:29 GMT"}
- If the date string is invalid the api returns a JSON having the structure
{"error" : "Invalid Date" }
.
Example Usage:
-
GET [project url]/api/timestamp/2015-12-25
GET project url]/api/timestamp/1450137600
Example Output:
{"unix":1451001600000, "utc":"Fri, 25 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMT"}