Project Submission - Weather Service Assignment

Write an HTTP server that serves the current weather.

Your server should expose an endpoint that:

1. Accepts latitude and longitude coordinates
2. Returns the short forecast for that area for Today (“Partly Cloudy” etc)
3. Returns a characterization of whether the temperature is “hot”, “cold”, or “moderate” (use your discretion on mapping temperatures to each type)
4. Use the National Weather Service API Web Service as a data source.

The purpose of this exercise is to provide a sample of your work that we can discuss together in the Technical Interview.

• We respect your time. Spend as long as you need, but we intend it to take around an hour.
• We do not expect a production-ready service, but you might want to comment on your shortcuts.
• The submitted project should build and have brief instructions so we can verify that it works.
• You may write in whatever language or stack you're most comfortable in, but the technical interviewers are most familiar with Typelevel Scala.

Implementation

• I will use Go as that is a request lang
• Request will be a GET request with params
• Response will be JSON
• I will keep it very simple
• I will forgo testing
• I will aim to complete in about an hour

API: GET request:

http://localhost:8080/weather?lat=<LAT>&lon=<LON>

Response:

{
    "forecast": "Partly Cloudy",
    "temperature_feel": "moderate"
}

Test

Terminal 1

go run .

Terminal 2

curl "http://localhost:8080/weather?lat=36.174465&lon=-86.767960"

Expected response example:

{"forcast":"Sunny","temperature_feel":"moderate"}