Merge pull request #134 from jessib/feature/messages_api

Feature/messages api

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/users/app/controllers/v1/messages_controller.rb b/users/app/controllers/v1/messages_controller.rb
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+module V1
+  class MessagesController < ApplicationController
+
+    skip_before_filter :verify_authenticity_token
+    before_filter :authorize
+
+    respond_to :json
+
+    def index
+      render json: (current_user ? current_user.messages : [] )
+    end
+
+    def update
+      message = Message.find(params[:id])
+      if (message and current_user)
+        message.user_ids_to_show.delete(current_user.id)
+        # is it necessary to keep track of what users have already seen it?
+        message.user_ids_have_shown << current_user.id if !message.user_ids_have_shown.include?(current_user.id)
+        # TODO: is it quicker to call uniq! after adding rather than check if it is already included?
+        message.save
+        render json: true
+      else
+        render json: false
+      end
+    end
+
+  end
+end