Retail Application API

This is a simple API for managing products in a retail application. It includes CRUD operations, an approval queue, and business logic for handling product updates, deletions, and creations.

Features

• View and search active products.
• Create, update, and delete products with approval logic.
• Approval queue management.
• Unit tests for business logic.

Technology Stack

• ASP.NET Core 8.0
• Entity Framework Core 8.0
• SQL Server (or SQLite for local testing)
• xUnit and Moq for unit testing

Prerequisites

• .NET 8 SDK
• SQLite for local development

Install dotnet-ef tool using dotnet tool install --global dotnet-ef

How to Run

1. Clone this repository.

2. Install the necessary packages via dotnet restore. dotnet add package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore --version 8.0.8 dotnet add package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Sqlite --version 8.0.8 dotnet add package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools --version 8.0.8

3. Update the connection string in appsettings.json to point to your database.

4. Run the database migrations using dotnet ef migrations add InitialCreate and dotnet ef database update.

5. Build the application using dotnet build

6. Run the application using dotnet run.

7. Swagger will be available at http://localhost:5000/swagger/index.html.

Testing

Run the unit tests using the following command:

dotnet test