currency conversion

currency-conversion

This service is used to retrieve one or more exchange rates for countries from the approved HMRC monthly exchange rates

Flow

Successful Flow (200 Response)

• A call is made to the /rates/:date endpoint with a valid date and one or more currency codes in the query string.
• A 200 response with JSON data containing the start and end date for the rates, the currency code and the rate for that currency code.

Endpoints

GET /currency-conversion/rates/:date

Example

GET -> /currency-conversion/rates/2019-03-21?cc=USD

Response Body

[
    {
        "startDate": "2019-03-01",
        "endDate": "2019-03-31",
        "currencyCode": "USD",
        "rate": "1.3064"
    }
]

NB: If an exchange rate file cannot be found, an error will be logged and a WARNING 299 - Date out of range will be in the response headers.

Testing

To run the tests locally, simply run ./run_all_tests.sh

License

This code is open source software licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.