dateMicroservice

A micro-service that I made for my CS361 class, can return date and day of the week

Instructions:

1. Make sure that dateMicroservice.txt is located at the same location specified in the PATH varible in microservice.py
2. Run the command python3 microservice.py
3. Insert a command into dateMicroservice.txt
4. Result will be returned to dateMicroservice.txt at which point you are now ready to put in another command

Commands:

Note any other command than the ones specified below will result in "ERROR INVALID INPUT" being returned, at which point a valid command must be input to continue using the micro-service

• get date -- This command will return the current date in a YYYY-MM-DD format

• get day -- This command will return the current day of the week in lowercase letters

• get full date -- This command will return the date and day of the week in a YYYY-MM-DD,dayOfTheWeek format

• exit -- This command will clear the dateMicroservice.txt file and will kill the microservice process

Sequence Diagram:

• The main program requests the date, day of the week, or both by writing a command to a textfile

• The micro-service processes the command and then clears the contents of the text file and replaces them with the output