fix(#10): Removes the timestamp from the API endpoint

The timestamp is generated by the database call, the value was mapped to
TTL. It is currently removed from the API, the TTL can be added later
when needed.

frontend/src/components/URLShortener/URLShortener.tsx

@@ -28,13 +28,11 @@ export default function URLShortener() {
     }
 
     try {
-      const timestamp = Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000);
 
       // Send the POST request to the backend
       await axios
         .post("http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/v1/shorten", {
-          url: url,
-          timestamp: timestamp,
+          url: url
         })
         .then((response) => {
           if (response) {

shortenit/main.py

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ def main() -> typing.NoReturn:
     sys.exit(0)
 
 
-def shorten_it(config: dict, session: Session, data: str, ttl: int):
+def shorten_it(config: dict, session: Session, data: str, ttl: int = 0):
     shortener = Shortener(session, config)
     identifier = shortener.generate_uuid()
     if identifier:

shortenit/models/objects.py

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ class Pointer(base.Base):
     __tablename__ = "pointers"
     id: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(primary_key=True, index=True, init=False)
     data: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(index=True)
-    ttl: Mapped[str]
+    ttl: Mapped[int]
     link_id: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(ForeignKey("links.id"))
     link: Mapped["Link"] = relationship(back_populates="pointers")
     timestamp: Mapped[datetime] = mapped_column(default=func.now())

shortenit/web.py

@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ class SiteHandler:
         self.shorten_url = shorten_url
         self.lenghten_url = lenghten_url
         self.shortenit_load_format = trafaret.Dict(
-            {trafaret.Key("url"): trafaret.URL, trafaret.Key("timestamp"): trafaret.Int}
+            {trafaret.Key("url"): trafaret.URL}
         )
 
     def _get_server_config(self):
@@ -87,7 +87,6 @@ class SiteHandler:
                 self.configuration.get("Shortener", None),
                 self.database,
                 data["url"],
-                data["timestamp"],
             )
             short_url = self._get_url(stub)
         except KeyError as e: