Description
This is a learning excercise to practice what I have learned in Elixir using Gen Servers Producers, Producer/Consumers, and Consumers with an external API. Using these tools the aim is to download pictures of smart active cats!
The app is given a list of cat breeds
The producer pulls from this list and passes them to the producer_consumer
The producer_consumer then filters the cats. We only want pictures of cats with an energy level greater than 5 and adaptability of greater than 2
The consumer then generates a name for the cat, gets the temperaments of the cat, full breed name, and downloads a picture. The cat picture is sent to the pic_server where it is stored in a map with the name as a key, the cats temparement and name is sent to the temparment_server here the cats name is stored in a list under the keys of its temperaments, and finally the name and breed are sent to the cat_breed_server where the name of the cat is stored in a list under the key of the cat breed.
While this is happening a list of available breeds and temperaments are printed in the console.
We now have our cat information stored in the state of our three GenServers cat_breed_server, temparment_server, pic_server. We can extract this information with the use of the functions below.
Mocktail.get_breed/1 to get a list of cats of a particular breed
Mocktail.get_temperament/1 to get a list of cats with a particular temperament
Mocktail.get_pics_of_breed/1 to download pictures of a particular breed to /cat_pics
Mocktail.get_pics_of_temperament/1 to downloads pictures of a particular temperament
to /cat_pics
Mocktail.get_pics/1 takes a list of cat names and downloads pictures to /cat_pics
Mocktail.get_pic_of/1 takes a cat's name and downloads pictures to /cat_pics
I use asdf to manage my versions of Elixir and Erlang(among others)
Install Erlang 25.2.1
Install Elixir 1.14
clone the repo from Github
get an api key from https://thecatapi.com/#pricing
run mix deps.get
start the app with API_KEY=(your api key here) iex -S mix
As pictures are downloaded the temperaments and breeds available will print in the console.
Below is a list of functions you can copy and paste if you see thier arguments as Available.
Mocktail.get_breed("Cymric")
Mocktail.get_temperament("Gentle")
Mocktail.get_pics_of_breed("Balinese")
Mocktail.get_pics_of_temperament("Loyal")