Gif to ascii

Downloads arbitrary gifs from a url, transforms them to ascii, saves them in a db.

Note: not all gifs work, I went through a whole bunch of batman gifs that caused mysterious array out of bounds exceptions. I'm sure its something I should be handling better.

Required Software

• Java 11
• sbt
• Docker

Run the application

Out of the box

if you are weary of jvm versions

1. docker-compose up - builds and starts application in docker
2. browser to http://localhost:9000

Use sbt docker build image

if you are confident in your local environment

0. update docker-compose, comment out build section of image-injest and uncomment image section
1. publish docker image for service sbt docker:publishLocal
2. run docker-compose: docker-compose up
3. browser to http://localhost:9000

Endpoints

To see the form:

• GET /
• GET /download

You will be redirected here:

• GET /handle-download
  • This will first check to see if the given gif had been downloaded. If it had not, then it will download it and pre compute the ascii representation of the gif.
  • parameters:
    • url: escaped url of the gif
    • size:
      • a string with a substring from the two following sets of strings:
        • "xtra", "supe", "more", "real"
        • "larg", "big", "smal", "peq", "lit"
      • For example superbig or extra_small or real little
  • Example: http://localhost:9000/handle-download?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.giphy.com%2Fmedia%2FW80Y9y1XwiL84%2Fgiphy.gif&size=SUPERBIG