Add a route to view individual users

README.md

@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ Server for Integrated Project, powered by Express.js and Redis, listens only on
     * [/hello/:name/](#helloname)
     * [/user/register/](#userregister)
     * [/user/auth/](#userauth)
+    * [/user/view/](#userview)
+    * [/user/view/:user](#userviewuser)
     * [/society/create/](#societycreate)
     * [/society/view/](#societyview)
     * [/society/view/:society\_name](#societyviewsociety_name)
@@ -93,6 +95,27 @@ existing authentication key for that account. Note that you do not need to use
 The error codes are as follows, `1` indicates the username or password was
 invalid and `2` indicates that the login request was malformed.
 
+### /user/view/
+As yet unimplemented but will eventually return all of the users.
+
+### /user/view/:user
+To view the public information for any given `:user`, a `GET` request should be
+sent with no data, and the returned response will look like this:
+```javascript
+{
+    "user": {
+        "username": "test1",
+        "societies": [
+            "TestSociety2"
+        ],
+        "friends": [],
+        "accepted_events": []
+    },
+    "error": 0
+}
+```
+The error codes are as follows, `1` indicates that the user does not exist.
+
 ### /society/create/
 To create a new society, a `POST` request should be sent with the following
 data:

presenters/user-controller.js

@@ -20,11 +20,22 @@ module.exports = {
     var user_key = "user:" + user;
 
     redis.hgetall(user_key, function(err, result) {
-      var public = {};
-      public.username = user;
-      public.societies = result.societies || [];
-      public.friends = result.friends || [];
-      public.accepted_events = result.accepted_events || [];
+      if (result.password) {
+        var public = {};
+        public.username = user;
+        public.societies = JSON.parse(result.societies) || [];
+        public.friends = JSON.parse(result.friends) || [];
+        public.accepted_events = JSON.parse(result.accepted_events) || [];
+        complete({
+          "user": public,
+          "error": 0
+        });
+      } else {
+        complete({
+          "user": {},
+          "error": 1
+        });
+      }
     });
   },
 

routes/user/view.js

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+var user_controller = require("./../../presenters/user-controller.js");
+
+module.exports = {
+  perform: function (a,b) {
+    perform(a,b);
+  }
+}
+
+var perform = function (req, res) {
+  if (req.params.user) {
+    user_controller.get_public_user_info(req.params.user.toLowerCase(), function (response) {
+      res.send(response);
+    });
+  }
+};

utils/route-manager.js

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ var router = express.Router();
 var hello = require("../routes/misc/helloworld.js");
 var register = require("../routes/user/register.js");
 var login = require("../routes/user/login.js");
+var user_view = require("../routes/user/view.js");
 var soc_create = require("../routes/society/create-society.js");
 var soc_view = require("../routes/society/view-society.js");
 var soc_join = require("../routes/society/join-society.js");
@@ -13,6 +14,7 @@ router.get('/hello/(:name)?', hello.perform);
 
 router.all('/user/register/', register.perform);
 router.all('/user/auth/', login.perform);
+router.all('/user/view/(:user)?', user_view.perform);
 
 router.all('/society/create', soc_create.perform);
 router.all('/society/view/(:societyid)?', soc_view.perform);