Erlang REST API example

Simple example Erlang Cowboy REST API service

• Cowboy 2.0
• Cowboy sessions (fork)
• Emodel (validate user input)
• pgapp (poolboy and epgsql)
• sync (hotreload)

To start

Install rebar - (e.g. apt-get install rebar or yum rebar)

Then run

make
make run-local

Install Postgres and create database and postgres user.

Edit config /config/sys.config to connect db

init db in console:

persist:init_db(pgdb).

To use

Url for API http://localhost:8080

content-type: application/json

GET /
Hello message

POST /register
Register new user
json body: {
  "email":"Anakin@darkside.com",
  "pass":"123456",
  "fname": "Dart",
  "lname": "Vader"
}

GET /register?token=EX9dNvZebWsKDwGlnUS06DajIwJMhjqCB1hkNvwnEtVHqehqoPvz7E8ULz1qhwTP
Complete registration

POST /login
Login
json body: {"email": "email@email.com", "pass": "123456"} 

POST /logout
Logout