Setup

conda create -n empapi_venv
conda activate empapi_venv
pip install -r requirements.txt

django-admin startproject emp_api .
django-admin startapp api_main

Update your settings to reflect the following:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'rest_framework',
    'api_main'
]



REST_FRAMEWORK = {
    'DEFAULT_PERMISSION_CLASSES': (
        'rest_framework.permissions.IsAuthenticated',
    ),
    'DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES': (
        'rest_framework_jwt.authentication.JSONWebTokenAuthentication',
        'rest_framework.authentication.SessionAuthentication',
        'rest_framework.authentication.BasicAuthentication',
    ),
}

SCHEDULER_CONFIG = {
    "apscheduler.jobstores.default": {
        "class": "django_apscheduler.jobstores:DjangoJobStore"
    },
    'apscheduler.executors.processpool': {
        "type": "threadpool"
    },
}
SCHEDULER_AUTOSTART = True

Running the API

• To get the payments report for the rest of the year: GET api/api_main/getdata/ --body: empty
• To get Employee details: POST api/api_main/empdetails/ --body: {"emp_id": desired employee id}
• To create new employee data: POST api/api_main/newemp/ --body: {"emp_id": new id, "salary": new salary, "bonus": new bonus rate}
• To edit a certain employee bonus rate: PUT api/api_main/editbonus/ --body: {"emp_id": desired employee id, "new_bonus": new bonus}
• To delete employee data: DELETE api/api_main/delete/ --body: {"emp_id": desired employee id}

Scheduling emailing to system admin

Make sure to edit these variables at /api_main/scheduler.py

• toaddr : this shall have the admin's email, to whom the script shall report monthly payments 2 days before due
• fromaddr: this shall have the user's email, from which we're going to send the reports
• password: this shall have the user's email password to connect