Software Engineering Practical

Dependencies

• Django
• psycopg2
• django-widget-tweaks
• ujson
• requests
• lxml
• pytz

Project layout

• data/
• cache.py --- main functions for getting stock data. Retrieves from the database if it can, scrapes otherwise.
• models.py --- models for exchanges, symbols, quotes.
• views.py --- JSON API for retrieving stock data.
• urls.py --- routing for the JSON API.
• finance/
• Main site directory, base templates, routing, etc.
• users/
• views.py --- views for registration and profile page.
• templates/ --- templates for login, registration, etc.
• stocks/
• Some of the stuff in data/ used to live here until I moved it.

JSON API

• /data/stock/<EXCHANGE>/<TICKER>
• EXCHANGE is an abbreviation for an exchange, e.g. LSE or NASDAQ.
• TICKER is a stock ticker, e.g. GSK or MSFT.
• /data/index/<TICKER>
• TICKER is an exchange ticker, e.g. FTSE.