github.com/rileyisland/code-challenge-autocomplete

Code Challenge: Autocomplete Service

A web service using Golang that can return autocomplete suggestions based on word fragments, using a local text file as the data source.

Instructions for Mac

• Clone the repository using Git to your local filesystem.
• Using the command line, navigate to the code folder.
• Run go run main.go.
• Navigate to http://localhost:9000/autocomplete?term=TERM.
• Replace "TERM" in the url above with any other matches you would like to autocomplete.

Documentation

• See the examples folder for sample JSON results
• Sources:
  • Text file parsing by word: http://networkbit.ch/read-text-file-in-go/
  • Map sorting: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18695346/how-to-sort-a-mapstringint-by-its-values
  • Substrings: https://www.dotnetperls.com/substring-go

Known Issues/TODOs

• Create a module for matches and move code from main.go into the module for cleanliness purposes
• Clean more words from the initial word results
  • Visit http://localhost:9000/autocomplete?term=brother: "brother", "brother-" and "brother--" are separate results)
  • Get a list of words for which isNonWord returns true and identify any other caveats that could be added to properly include/exclude characters/words