Merge branch 'develop' into BETTERZON-78

- Not properly tested though as login functionality is required to test but not yet implemented

Backend/src/index.ts

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ import {errorHandler} from './middleware/error.middleware';
 import {notFoundHandler} from './middleware/notFound.middleware';
 import {usersRouter} from './models/users/users.router';
 import {pricealarmsRouter} from './models/pricealarms/pricealarms.router';
+import {contactpersonsRouter} from './models/contact_persons/contact_persons.router';
 
 const cookieParser = require('cookie-parser');
 
@@ -49,6 +50,7 @@ app.use('/prices', pricesRouter);
 app.use('/users', usersRouter);
 app.use('/vendors', vendorsRouter);
 app.use('/pricealarms', pricealarmsRouter);
+app.use('/contactpersons', contactpersonsRouter);
 
 app.use(errorHandler);
 app.use(notFoundHandler);

Backend/src/models/contact_persons/contact_person.interface.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+export interface Contact_Person {
+    contact_person_id: number;
+    first_name: string;
+    last_name: string;
+    gender: string;
+    email: string;
+    phone: string;
+    vendor_id: number;
+}

Backend/src/models/contact_persons/contact_persons.interface.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+import {Contact_Person} from './contact_person.interface';
+
+export interface Contact_Persons {
+    [key: number]: Contact_Person;
+}

Backend/src/models/contact_persons/contact_persons.router.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,129 @@
+/**
+ * Required External Modules and Interfaces
+ */
+
+import express, {Request, Response} from 'express';
+import * as ContactPersonService from './contact_persons.service';
+import {Contact_Person} from './contact_person.interface';
+import {Contact_Persons} from './contact_persons.interface';
+import * as UserService from '../users/users.service';
+import * as PriceService from '../prices/prices.service';
+
+
+/**
+ * Router Definition
+ */
+
+export const contactpersonsRouter = express.Router();
+
+
+/**
+ * Controller Definitions
+ */
+
+// GET contactpersons/
+contactpersonsRouter.get('/', async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
+    try {
+        const contacts: Contact_Persons = await ContactPersonService.findAll();
+
+        res.status(200).send(contacts);
+    } catch (e) {
+        console.log('Error handling a request: ' + e.message);
+        res.status(500).send(JSON.stringify({'message': 'Internal Server Error. Try again later.'}));
+    }
+});
+
+// GET contactpersons/:id
+contactpersonsRouter.get('/:id', async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
+    const id: number = parseInt(req.params.id, 10);
+
+    if (!id) {
+        res.status(400).send('Missing parameters.');
+        return;
+    }
+
+    try {
+        const contact: Contact_Person = await ContactPersonService.find(id);
+
+        res.status(200).send(contact);
+    } catch (e) {
+        console.log('Error handling a request: ' + e.message);
+        res.status(500).send(JSON.stringify({'message': 'Internal Server Error. Try again later.'}));
+    }
+});
+
+// GET contactpersons/byvendor/:id
+contactpersonsRouter.get('/byvendor/:id', async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
+    const id: number = parseInt(req.params.id, 10);
+
+    if (!id) {
+        res.status(400).send('Missing parameters.');
+        return;
+    }
+
+    try {
+        const contacts: Contact_Persons = await ContactPersonService.findByVendor(id);
+
+        res.status(200).send(contacts);
+    } catch (e) {
+        console.log('Error handling a request: ' + e.message);
+        res.status(500).send(JSON.stringify({'message': 'Internal Server Error. Try again later.'}));
+    }
+});
+
+// POST contactpersons/
+contactpersonsRouter.post('/', async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
+    try {
+        // Authenticate user
+        const user_ip = req.connection.remoteAddress ?? '';
+        const user = await UserService.checkSessionWithCookie(req.cookies.betterauth, user_ip);
+
+        // Get required parameters
+        const vendor_id = req.body.vendor_id;
+        const first_name = req.body.first_name;
+        const last_name = req.body.last_name;
+        const gender = req.body.gender;
+        const email = req.body.email;
+        const phone = req.body.phone;
+
+        const success = await ContactPersonService.createContactEntry(user.user_id, vendor_id, first_name, last_name, gender, email, phone);
+
+        if (success) {
+            res.sendStatus(200);
+        } else {
+            res.sendStatus(500);
+        }
+    } catch (e) {
+        console.log('Error handling a request: ' + e.message);
+        res.status(500).send(JSON.stringify({'message': 'Internal Server Error. Try again later.'}));
+    }
+});
+
+// PUT contactpersons/:id
+contactpersonsRouter.put('/:id', async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
+    try {
+        // Authenticate user
+        const user_ip = req.connection.remoteAddress ?? '';
+        const user = await UserService.checkSessionWithCookie(req.cookies.betterauth, user_ip);
+
+        // Get required parameters
+        const contact_person_id = parseInt(req.params.id, 10);
+        const vendor_id = req.body.vendor_id;
+        const first_name = req.body.first_name;
+        const last_name = req.body.last_name;
+        const gender = req.body.gender;
+        const email = req.body.email;
+        const phone = req.body.phone;
+
+        const success = await ContactPersonService.updateContactEntry(user.user_id, contact_person_id, vendor_id, first_name, last_name, gender, email, phone);
+
+        if (success) {
+            res.sendStatus(200);
+        } else {
+            res.sendStatus(500);
+        }
+    } catch (e) {
+        console.log('Error handling a request: ' + e.message);
+        res.status(500).send(JSON.stringify({'message': 'Internal Server Error. Try again later.'}));
+    }
+});

Backend/src/models/contact_persons/contact_persons.service.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,175 @@
+import * as dotenv from 'dotenv';
+
+dotenv.config();
+
+const mariadb = require('mariadb');
+const pool = mariadb.createPool({
+    host: process.env.DB_HOST,
+    user: process.env.DB_USER,
+    password: process.env.DB_PASSWORD,
+    database: process.env.DB_DATABASE,
+    connectionLimit: 5
+});
+
+/**
+ * Data Model Interfaces
+ */
+
+import {Contact_Person} from './contact_person.interface';
+import {Contact_Persons} from './contact_persons.interface';
+
+
+/**
+ * Service Methods
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Fetches and returns all known contact persons
+ */
+export const findAll = async (): Promise<Contact_Persons> => {
+    let conn;
+    let contRows = [];
+    try {
+        conn = await pool.getConnection();
+        const rows = await conn.query('SELECT contact_person_id, first_name, last_name, gender, email, phone, vendor_id FROM contact_persons');
+        for (let row in rows) {
+            if (row !== 'meta') {
+                contRows.push(rows[row]);
+            }
+        }
+
+    } catch (err) {
+        throw err;
+    } finally {
+        if (conn) {
+            conn.end();
+        }
+    }
+
+    return contRows;
+};
+
+/**
+ * Fetches and returns the contact person with the specified id
+ * @param id The id of the contact person to fetch
+ */
+export const find = async (id: number): Promise<Contact_Person> => {
+    let conn;
+    let cont: any;
+    try {
+        conn = await pool.getConnection();
+        const rows = await conn.query('SELECT contact_person_id, first_name, last_name, gender, email, phone, vendor_id FROM contact_persons WHERE contact_person_id = ?', id);
+        for (let row in rows) {
+            if (row !== 'meta') {
+                cont = rows[row];
+            }
+        }
+
+    } catch (err) {
+        throw err;
+    } finally {
+        if (conn) {
+            conn.end();
+        }
+    }
+
+    return cont;
+};
+
+/**
+ * Fetches and returns the contact persons for the specified vendor
+ * @param id The id of the vendor to fetch contact persons for
+ */
+export const findByVendor = async (id: number): Promise<Contact_Persons> => {
+    let conn;
+    let contRows = [];
+    try {
+        conn = await pool.getConnection();
+        const rows = await conn.query('SELECT contact_person_id, first_name, last_name, gender, email, phone, vendor_id FROM contact_persons WHERE vendor_id = ?', id);
+        for (let row in rows) {
+            if (row !== 'meta') {
+                contRows.push(rows[row]);
+            }
+        }
+
+    } catch (err) {
+        throw err;
+    } finally {
+        if (conn) {
+            conn.end();
+        }
+    }
+
+    return contRows;
+};
+
+/**
+ * Creates a contact entry record
+ * @param user_id The user id of the issuing user
+ * @param vendor_id The vendor id of the vendor to create the record for
+ * @param first_name The first name of the contact person
+ * @param last_name The last name of the contact person
+ * @param gender The gender of the contact person
+ * @param email The email of the contact person
+ * @param phone The phone number of the contact person
+ */
+export const createContactEntry = async (user_id: number, vendor_id: number, first_name: string, last_name: string, gender: string, email: string, phone: string): Promise<Boolean> => {
+    let conn;
+    try {
+        conn = await pool.getConnection();
+
+        // Check if the user is authorized to manage the requested vendor
+        const user_vendor_rows = await conn.query('SELECT vendor_id FROM vendors WHERE vendor_id = ? AND admin_id = ?', [vendor_id, user_id]);
+        if (user_vendor_rows.length !== 1) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        // Create contact person entry
+        const res = await conn.query('INSERT INTO contact_persons (first_name, last_name, gender, email, phone, vendor_id) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)', [first_name, last_name, gender, email, phone, vendor_id]);
+
+        // If there are more / less than 1 affected rows, return false
+        return res.affectedRows === 1;
+    } catch (err) {
+        throw err;
+    } finally {
+        if (conn) {
+            conn.end();
+        }
+    }
+};
+
+/**
+ * Updates a contact entry record
+ * @param user_id The user id of the issuing user
+ * @param contact_person_id The id of the record to update
+ * @param vendor_id The vendor id of the vendor to create the record for
+ * @param first_name The first name of the contact person
+ * @param last_name The last name of the contact person
+ * @param gender The gender of the contact person
+ * @param email The email of the contact person
+ * @param phone The phone number of the contact person
+ */
+export const updateContactEntry = async (user_id: number, contact_person_id: number, vendor_id: number, first_name: string, last_name: string, gender: string, email: string, phone: string): Promise<Boolean> => {
+    let conn;
+    try {
+        conn = await pool.getConnection();
+
+        // Check if the user is authorized to manage the requested vendor
+        const user_vendor_rows = await conn.query('SELECT vendor_id FROM vendors WHERE vendor_id = ? AND admin_id = ?', [vendor_id, user_id]);
+        if (user_vendor_rows.length !== 1) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        // Create contact person entry
+        const res = await conn.query('UPDATE contact_persons SET first_name = ?, last_name = ?, gender = ?, email = ?, phone = ? WHERE contact_person_id = ? AND vendor_id = ?', [first_name, last_name, gender, email, phone, contact_person_id, vendor_id]);
+
+        // If there are more / less than 1 affected rows, return false
+        return res.affectedRows === 1;
+    } catch (err) {
+        throw err;
+    } finally {
+        if (conn) {
+            conn.end();
+        }
+    }
+};

Backend/src/models/manufacturers/manufacturers.router.ts

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ export const manufacturersRouter = express.Router();
  * Controller Definitions
  */
 
-// GET items/
+// GET manufacturers/
 manufacturersRouter.get('/', async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
     try {
         const manufacturers: Manufacturers = await ManufacturerService.findAll();
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ manufacturersRouter.get('/', async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
     }
 });
 
-// GET items/:id
+// GET manufacturers/:id
 manufacturersRouter.get('/:id', async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
     const id: number = parseInt(req.params.id, 10);
 
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ manufacturersRouter.get('/:id', async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
     }
 });
 
-// GET items/:term
+// GET manufacturers/:term
 manufacturersRouter.get('/search/:term', async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
     const term: string = req.params.term;
 

Backend/src/models/pricealarms/pricealarms.router.ts

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ pricealarmsRouter.get('/', async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
 });
 
 // POST pricealarms/create
-pricealarmsRouter.post('/create', async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
+pricealarmsRouter.post('/', async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
     try {
         // Authenticate user
         const user_ip = req.connection.remoteAddress ?? '';
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ pricealarmsRouter.post('/create', async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
 });
 
 // PUT pricealarms/update
-pricealarmsRouter.put('/update', async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
+pricealarmsRouter.put('/', async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
     try {
         // Authenticate user
         const user_ip = req.connection.remoteAddress ?? '';

Backend/src/models/prices/price.interface.ts

@@ -4,7 +4,24 @@ export interface Price {
     vendor_id: number;
     price_in_cents: number;
     timestamp: Date;
-    // Only for deals
-    amazonDifference?: number;
-    amazonDifferencePercent?: number;
+}
+
+export class Deal implements Price {
+    price_id: number;
+    product_id: number;
+    vendor_id: number;
+    price_in_cents: number;
+    timestamp: Date;
+    amazonDifference: number;
+    amazonDifferencePercent: number;
+
+    constructor(price_id: number, product_id: number, vendor_id: number, price_in_cents: number, timestamp: Date, amazonDifference: number, amazonDifferencePercent: number) {
+        this.price_id = price_id;
+        this.product_id = product_id;
+        this.vendor_id = vendor_id;
+        this.price_in_cents = price_in_cents;
+        this.timestamp = timestamp;
+        this.amazonDifference = amazonDifference;
+        this.amazonDifferencePercent = amazonDifferencePercent;
+    }
 }

Backend/src/models/prices/prices.router.ts

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import express, {Request, Response} from 'express';
 import * as PriceService from './prices.service';
 import {Price} from './price.interface';
 import {Prices} from './prices.interface';
+import * as UserService from '../users/users.service';
 
 
 /**
@@ -100,3 +101,28 @@ pricesRouter.get('/byProduct/list/:ids', async (req: Request, res: Response) =>
         res.status(500).send(JSON.stringify({'message': 'Internal Server Error. Try again later.'}));
     }
 });
+
+// POST prices/
+pricesRouter.post('/', async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
+    try {
+        // Authenticate user
+        const user_ip = req.connection.remoteAddress ?? '';
+        const user = await UserService.checkSessionWithCookie(req.cookies.betterauth, user_ip);
+
+        // Get required parameters
+        const vendor_id = req.body.vendor_id;
+        const product_id = req.body.product_id;
+        const price_in_cents = req.body.price_in_cents;
+
+        const success = await PriceService.createPriceEntry(user.user_id, vendor_id, product_id, price_in_cents);
+
+        if (success) {
+            res.sendStatus(200);
+        } else {
+            res.sendStatus(500);
+        }
+    } catch (e) {
+        console.log('Error handling a request: ' + e.message);
+        res.status(500).send(JSON.stringify({'message': 'Internal Server Error. Try again later.'}));
+    }
+});

Backend/src/models/prices/prices.service.ts

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ const pool = mariadb.createPool({
  * Data Model Interfaces
  */
 
-import {Price} from './price.interface';
+import {Deal, Price} from './price.interface';
 import {Prices} from './prices.interface';
 
 
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ export const findAll = async (): Promise<Prices> => {
     let priceRows = [];
     try {
         conn = await pool.getConnection();
-        const rows = await conn.query('SELECT price_id, product_id, vendor_id, price_in_cents, timestamp FROM prices WHERE active_listing = true');
+        const rows = await conn.query('SELECT price_id, product_id, v.vendor_id, price_in_cents, timestamp FROM prices p LEFT OUTER JOIN vendors v ON v.vendor_id = p.vendor_id WHERE active_listing = true AND v.isActive = true');
         for (let row in rows) {
             if (row !== 'meta') {
                 let price: Price = {
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ export const find = async (id: number): Promise<Price> => {
     let price: any;
     try {
         conn = await pool.getConnection();
-        const rows = await conn.query('SELECT price_id, product_id, vendor_id, price_in_cents, timestamp FROM prices WHERE price_id = ? AND active_listing = true', id);
+        const rows = await conn.query('SELECT price_id, product_id, p.vendor_id, price_in_cents, timestamp FROM prices p LEFT OUTER JOIN vendors v ON v.vendor_id = p.vendor_id WHERE price_id = ? AND active_listing = true AND v.isActive = true', id);
         for (let row in rows) {
             if (row !== 'meta') {
                 price = rows[row];
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ export const findByProduct = async (product: number): Promise<Prices> => {
     let priceRows = [];
     try {
         conn = await pool.getConnection();
-        const rows = await conn.query('SELECT price_id, product_id, vendor_id, price_in_cents, timestamp FROM prices WHERE product_id = ? AND active_listing = true', product);
+        const rows = await conn.query('SELECT price_id, product_id, p.vendor_id, price_in_cents, timestamp FROM prices p LEFT OUTER JOIN vendors v ON v.vendor_id = p.vendor_id WHERE product_id = ? AND active_listing = true AND v.isActive = true', product);
         for (let row in rows) {
             if (row !== 'meta') {
                 priceRows.push(rows[row]);
@@ -142,16 +142,17 @@ export const findByType = async (product: string, type: string): Promise<Prices>
                 'PARTITION BY p.vendor_id ' +
                 'ORDER BY p.timestamp DESC) AS rk ' +
                 'FROM prices p ' +
-                'WHERE product_id = ? AND vendor_id != 1 AND active_listing = true) ' +
+                'LEFT OUTER JOIN vendors v ON v.vendor_id = p.vendor_id ' +
+                'WHERE product_id = ? AND p.vendor_id != 1 AND active_listing = true AND v.isActive = true) ' +
                 'SELECT s.* ' +
                 'FROM summary s ' +
                 'WHERE s.rk = 1 '), product);
         } else if (type === 'lowest') {
             // Used to get the lowest prices for this product over a period of time
-            rows = await conn.query('SELECT price_id, product_id, vendor_id, MIN(price_in_cents) as price_in_cents, timestamp FROM prices WHERE product_id = ? AND vendor_id != 1 AND active_listing = true GROUP BY DAY(timestamp) ORDER BY timestamp', product);
+            rows = await conn.query('SELECT price_id, product_id, p.vendor_id, MIN(price_in_cents) as price_in_cents, timestamp FROM prices p LEFT OUTER JOIN vendors v ON v.vendor_id = p.vendor_id WHERE product_id = ? AND v.vendor_id != 1 AND active_listing = true AND v.isActive = true GROUP BY DAY(timestamp) ORDER BY timestamp', product);
         } else {
             // If no type is given, return all prices for this product
-            rows = await conn.query('SELECT price_id, product_id, vendor_id, price_in_cents, timestamp FROM prices WHERE product_id = ? AND vendor_id != 1 AND active_listing = true', product);
+            rows = await conn.query('SELECT price_id, product_id, p.vendor_id, price_in_cents, timestamp FROM prices p LEFT OUTER JOIN vendors v ON v.vendor_id = p.vendor_id WHERE product_id = ? AND p.vendor_id != 1 AND active_listing = true AND v.isActive = true', product);
         }
 
         for (let row in rows) {
@@ -188,13 +189,13 @@ export const findByVendor = async (product: string, vendor: string, type: string
         let rows = [];
         if (type === 'newest') {
             // Used to get the newest price for this product and vendor
-            rows = await conn.query('SELECT price_id, product_id, vendor_id, price_in_cents, timestamp FROM prices WHERE product_id = ? AND vendor_id = ? AND active_listing = true ORDER BY timestamp DESC LIMIT 1', [product, vendor]);
+            rows = await conn.query('SELECT price_id, product_id, p.vendor_id, price_in_cents, timestamp FROM prices p LEFT OUTER JOIN vendors v ON v.vendor_id = p.vendor_id WHERE product_id = ? AND p.vendor_id = ? AND active_listing = true AND v.isActive = true ORDER BY timestamp DESC LIMIT 1', [product, vendor]);
         } else if (type === 'lowest') {
             // Used to get the lowest prices for this product and vendor in all time
-            rows = await conn.query('SELECT price_id, product_id, vendor_id, MIN(price_in_cents) as price_in_cents, timestamp FROM prices WHERE product_id = ? AND vendor_id = ? AND active_listing = true LIMIT 1', [product, vendor]);
+            rows = await conn.query('SELECT price_id, product_id, p.vendor_id, MIN(price_in_cents) as price_in_cents, timestamp FROM prices p LEFT OUTER JOIN vendors v ON v.vendor_id = p.vendor_id WHERE product_id = ? AND p.vendor_id = ? AND active_listing = true AND v.isActive = true LIMIT 1', [product, vendor]);
         } else {
             // If no type is given, return all prices for this product and vendor
-            rows = await conn.query('SELECT price_id, product_id, vendor_id, price_in_cents, timestamp FROM prices WHERE product_id = ? AND vendor_id = ? AND active_listing = true', [product, vendor]);
+            rows = await conn.query('SELECT price_id, product_id, p.vendor_id, price_in_cents, timestamp FROM prices p LEFT OUTER JOIN vendors v ON v.vendor_id = p.vendor_id WHERE product_id = ? AND p.vendor_id = ? AND active_listing = true AND v.isActive = true', [product, vendor]);
         }
 
         for (let row in rows) {
@@ -237,7 +238,7 @@ export const getBestDeals = async (amount: number): Promise<Prices> => {
             '           ROW_NUMBER() OVER(\n' +
             '               PARTITION BY p.product_id, p.vendor_id\n' +
             '               ORDER BY p.timestamp DESC) AS rk\n' +
-            '    FROM prices p WHERE active_listing = true)\n' +
+            '    FROM prices p LEFT OUTER JOIN vendors v ON v.vendor_id = p.vendor_id WHERE active_listing = true AND v.isActive = true)\n' +
             'SELECT s.*\n' +
             'FROM summary s\n' +
             'WHERE s.rk = 1');
@@ -254,7 +255,7 @@ export const getBestDeals = async (amount: number): Promise<Prices> => {
         }
 
         // Iterate over all prices to find the products with the biggest difference between amazon and other vendor
-        let deals: Price[] = [];
+        let deals: Deal[] = [];
 
         Object.keys(allPrices).forEach(productId => {
             if (allPrices[parseInt(productId)]) {
@@ -286,7 +287,7 @@ export const getBestDeals = async (amount: number): Promise<Prices> => {
 
                 // Push only deals were the amazon price is actually higher
                 if (deal.amazonDifferencePercent > 0) {
-                    deals.push(deal as Price);
+                    deals.push(deal as Deal);
                 }
             }
         });
@@ -300,7 +301,6 @@ export const getBestDeals = async (amount: number): Promise<Prices> => {
         for (let dealIndex = 0; dealIndex < maxAmt; dealIndex++) {
             priceRows.push(deals[dealIndex] as Price);
         }
-
     } catch (err) {
         console.log(err);
         throw err;
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ export const getBestDeals = async (amount: number): Promise<Prices> => {
 
 /**
  * Fetches and returns the lowest, latest, non-amazon price for each given product
- * @param ids the ids of the products
+ * @param productIds the ids of the products
  */
 export const findListByProducts = async (productIds: [number]): Promise<Prices> => {
     let conn;
@@ -335,8 +335,8 @@ export const findListByProducts = async (productIds: [number]): Promise<Prices>
             '           ROW_NUMBER() OVER(\n' +
             '               PARTITION BY p.product_id, p.vendor_id\n' +
             '               ORDER BY p.timestamp DESC) AS rk\n' +
-            '    FROM prices p' +
-            '    WHERE p.product_id IN (?)' +
+            '    FROM prices p LEFT OUTER JOIN vendors v ON v.vendor_id = p.vendor_id ' +
+            '    WHERE p.product_id IN (?) AND v.isActive = true' +
             '    AND p.vendor_id != 1 AND active_listing = true)\n' +
             'SELECT s.*\n' +
             'FROM summary s\n' +
@@ -365,7 +365,6 @@ export const findListByProducts = async (productIds: [number]): Promise<Prices>
                 priceRows.push(pricesForProd[0]);
             }
         });
-
     } catch (err) {
         throw err;
     } finally {
@@ -376,3 +375,28 @@ export const findListByProducts = async (productIds: [number]): Promise<Prices>
 
     return priceRows;
 };
+
+export const createPriceEntry = async (user_id: number, vendor_id: number, product_id: number, price_in_cents: number): Promise<Boolean> => {
+    let conn;
+    try {
+        conn = await pool.getConnection();
+
+        // Check if the user is authorized to manage the requested vendor
+        const user_vendor_rows = await conn.query('SELECT vendor_id FROM vendors WHERE vendor_id = ? AND admin_id = ?', [vendor_id, user_id]);
+        if (user_vendor_rows.length !== 1) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        // Create price entry
+        const res = await conn.query('INSERT INTO prices (product_id, vendor_id, price_in_cents) VALUES (?,?,?)', [product_id, vendor_id, price_in_cents]);
+
+        // If there are more / less than 1 affected rows, return false
+        return res.affectedRows === 1;
+    } catch (err) {
+        throw err;
+    } finally {
+        if (conn) {
+            conn.end();
+        }
+    }
+};

Backend/src/models/products/products.router.ts

@@ -87,3 +87,22 @@ productsRouter.get('/list/:ids', async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
         res.status(500).send(JSON.stringify({'message': 'Internal Server Error. Try again later.'}));
     }
 });
+
+// GET products/vendor/:id
+productsRouter.get('/vendor/:id', async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
+    const id: number = parseInt(req.params.id, 10);
+
+    if (!id) {
+        res.status(400).send('Missing parameters.');
+        return;
+    }
+
+    try {
+        const products: Products = await ProductService.findByVendor(id);
+
+        res.status(200).send(products);
+    } catch (e) {
+        console.log('Error handling a request: ' + e.message);
+        res.status(500).send(JSON.stringify({'message': 'Internal Server Error. Try again later.'}));
+    }
+});

Backend/src/models/products/products.service.ts

@@ -159,3 +159,41 @@ export const findList = async (ids: [number]): Promise<Products> => {
 
     return prodRows;
 };
+
+/**
+ * Fetches and returns the products that the given vendor has price entries for
+ * @param id The id of the vendor to fetch the products for
+ */
+export const findByVendor = async (id: number): Promise<Products> => {
+    let conn;
+    let prodRows = [];
+    try {
+        conn = await pool.getConnection();
+
+        // Get the relevant product ids
+        let relevant_prod_ids = [];
+        const relevantProds = await conn.query('SELECT product_id FROM prices WHERE vendor_id = ? GROUP BY product_id', id);
+        for (let row in relevantProds) {
+            if (row !== 'meta') {
+                relevant_prod_ids.push(relevantProds[row].product_id);
+            }
+        }
+
+        // Fetch products
+        const rows = await conn.query('SELECT product_id, name, asin, is_active, short_description, long_description, image_guid, date_added, last_modified, manufacturer_id, selling_rank, category_id FROM products WHERE product_id IN (?)', [relevant_prod_ids]);
+        for (let row in rows) {
+            if (row !== 'meta') {
+                prodRows.push(rows[row]);
+            }
+        }
+
+    } catch (err) {
+        throw err;
+    } finally {
+        if (conn) {
+            conn.end();
+        }
+    }
+
+    return prodRows;
+};

Backend/src/models/vendors/vendors.router.ts

@@ -99,7 +99,53 @@ vendorsRouter.put('/manage/deactivatelisting', async (req: Request, res: Respons
 
         const success = await VendorService.deactivateListing(user.user_id, vendor_id, product_id);
 
-        if(success) {
+        if (success) {
+            res.sendStatus(200);
+        } else {
+            res.sendStatus(500);
+        }
+    } catch (e) {
+        console.log('Error handling a request: ' + e.message);
+        res.status(500).send(JSON.stringify({'message': 'Internal Server Error. Try again later.'}));
+    }
+});
+
+// PUT /manage/shop/deactivate/:id
+vendorsRouter.put('/manage/shop/deactivate/:id', async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
+    try {
+        // Authenticate user
+        const user_ip = req.connection.remoteAddress ?? '';
+        const user = await UserService.checkSessionWithCookie(req.cookies.betterauth, user_ip);
+
+        // Get required parameters
+        const vendor_id = parseInt(req.params.id, 10);
+
+        const success = await VendorService.setShopStatus(user.user_id, vendor_id, false);
+
+        if (success) {
+            res.sendStatus(200);
+        } else {
+            res.sendStatus(500);
+        }
+    } catch (e) {
+        console.log('Error handling a request: ' + e.message);
+        res.status(500).send(JSON.stringify({'message': 'Internal Server Error. Try again later.'}));
+    }
+});
+
+// PUT /manage/shop/activate/:id
+vendorsRouter.put('/manage/shop/activate/:id', async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
+    try {
+        // Authenticate user
+        const user_ip = req.connection.remoteAddress ?? '';
+        const user = await UserService.checkSessionWithCookie(req.cookies.betterauth, user_ip);
+
+        // Get required parameters
+        const vendor_id = parseInt(req.params.id, 10);
+
+        const success = await VendorService.setShopStatus(user.user_id, vendor_id, true);
+
+        if (success) {
             res.sendStatus(200);
         } else {
             res.sendStatus(500);

Backend/src/models/vendors/vendors.service.ts

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ export const findAll = async (): Promise<Vendors> => {
     let vendorRows = [];
     try {
         conn = await pool.getConnection();
-        const rows = await conn.query('SELECT vendor_id, name, streetname, zip_code, city, country_code, phone, website FROM vendors');
+        const rows = await conn.query('SELECT vendor_id, name, streetname, zip_code, city, country_code, phone, website FROM vendors WHERE isActive = true');
         for (let row in rows) {
             if (row !== 'meta') {
                 let vendor: Vendor = {
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ export const find = async (id: number): Promise<Vendor> => {
     let vendor: any;
     try {
         conn = await pool.getConnection();
-        const rows = await conn.query('SELECT vendor_id, name, streetname, zip_code, city, country_code, phone, website FROM vendors WHERE vendor_id = ?', id);
+        const rows = await conn.query('SELECT vendor_id, name, streetname, zip_code, city, country_code, phone, website FROM vendors WHERE vendor_id = ? AND isActive = true', id);
         for (let row in rows) {
             if (row !== 'meta') {
                 vendor = rows[row];
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ export const findBySearchTerm = async (term: string): Promise<Vendors> => {
     try {
         conn = await pool.getConnection();
         term = '%' + term + '%';
-        const rows = await conn.query('SELECT vendor_id, name, streetname, zip_code, city, country_code, phone, website FROM vendors WHERE name LIKE ?', term);
+        const rows = await conn.query('SELECT vendor_id, name, streetname, zip_code, city, country_code, phone, website FROM vendors WHERE name LIKE ? AND isActive = true', term);
         for (let row in rows) {
             if (row !== 'meta') {
                 vendorRows.push(rows[row]);
@@ -171,10 +171,39 @@ export const deactivateListing = async (user_id: number, vendor_id: number, prod
 
         const status = await conn.query('UPDATE prices SET active_listing = false WHERE vendor_id = ? and product_id = ?', [vendor_id, product_id]);
 
-        if(status.affectedRows > 0){
-            return true;
-        }
-        return false;
+        return status.affectedRows > 0;
+    } catch (err) {
+        throw err;
+    } finally {
+        if (conn) {
+            conn.end();
+        }
+    }
+
+    return false;
+};
+
+/**
+ * Set the specified shop to either active or not active
+ * @param user_id The user id of the issuing user
+ * @param vendor_id The vendor id of the shop to update
+ * @param isActive The new active state
+ */
+export const setShopStatus = async (user_id: number, vendor_id: number, isActive: boolean): Promise<Boolean> => {
+    let conn;
+    try {
+        conn = await pool.getConnection();
+
+        // Check if the user is authorized to manage the requested vendor
+        const user_vendor_rows = await conn.query('SELECT vendor_id FROM vendors WHERE vendor_id = ? AND admin_id = ?', [vendor_id, user_id]);
+        if (user_vendor_rows.length !== 1) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        // Update the vendor state
+        const status = await conn.query('UPDATE vendors SET isActive = ? WHERE vendor_id = ?', [isActive, vendor_id]);
+
+        return status.affectedRows > 0;
     } catch (err) {
         throw err;
     } finally {

Crawler/Crawler.iml

@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@
 <module type="WEB_MODULE" version="4">
   <component name="FacetManager">
     <facet type="Python" name="Python">
-      <configuration sdkName="Python 3.9" />
+      <configuration sdkName="Python 3.9 (venv)" />
     </facet>
   </component>
   <component name="NewModuleRootManager" inherit-compiler-output="true">
     <exclude-output />
     <content url="file://$MODULE_DIR$" />
     <orderEntry type="sourceFolder" forTests="false" />
-    <orderEntry type="library" name="Python 3.9 interpreter library" level="application" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" name="Python 3.9 (venv) interpreter library" level="application" />
   </component>
 </module>

Crawler/api.py

@@ -1,13 +1,17 @@
+import os
+
 from flask import Flask
 from flask_restful import Resource, Api, reqparse
 
+import crawler
+
 app = Flask(__name__)
 api = Api(app)
 
 # To parse request data
 parser = reqparse.RequestParser()
-parser.add_argument('key')
-parser.add_argument('products')
+parser.add_argument('key', type=str)
+parser.add_argument('products', type=int, action='append')
 
 
 class CrawlerApi(Resource):
@@ -17,7 +21,12 @@ class CrawlerApi(Resource):
     def post(self):
         # Accept crawler request here
         args = parser.parse_args()
-        return args
+        access_key = os.getenv('CRAWLER_ACCESS_KEY')
+        if(args['key'] == access_key):
+            crawler.crawl(args['products'])
+            return {'message': 'success'}
+        else:
+            return {'message': 'Wrong access key'}
 
 
 api.add_resource(CrawlerApi, '/')

Crawler/crawler.py

@@ -1,78 +1,107 @@
-import sql
-
-
-def crawl(product_ids: [int]) -> dict:
-    """
-    Crawls the given list of products and saves the results to sql
-    :param products: The list of product IDs to fetch
-    :return: A dict with the following fields:
-                total_crawls: number of total crawl tries (products * vendors per product)
-                successful_crawls: number of successful products
-                products_with_problems: list of products that have not been crawled successfully
-    """
-    total_crawls = 0
-    successful_crawls = 0
-    products_with_problems = []
-
-    # Iterate over every product that has to be crawled
-    for product_id in product_ids:
-        # Get all links for this product
-        product_links = sql.getProductLinksForProduct(product_id)
-
-        crawled_data = []
-
-        # Iterate over every link / vendor
-        for product_vendor_info in product_links:
-            total_crawls += 1
-
-            # Call the appropriate vendor crawling function and append the result to the list of crawled data
-            if product_vendor_info['vendor_id'] == 1:
-                # Amazon
-                crawled_data.append(__crawl_amazon__(product_vendor_info))
-            elif product_vendor_info['vendor_id'] == 2:
-                # Apple
-                crawled_data.append(__crawl_apple__(product_vendor_info))
-            elif product_vendor_info['vendor_id'] == 3:
-                # Media Markt
-                crawled_data.append(__crawl_mediamarkt__(product_vendor_info))
-            else:
-                products_with_problems.append(product_vendor_info)
-                continue
-
-            successful_crawls += 1
-
-        # Insert data to SQL
-        sql.insertData(crawled_data)
-
-    return {
-        'total_crawls': total_crawls,
-        'successful_crawls': successful_crawls,
-        'products_with_problems': products_with_problems
-    }
-
-
-def __crawl_amazon__(product_info: dict) -> tuple:
-    """
-    Crawls the price for the given product from amazon
-    :param product_info: A dict with product info containing product_id, vendor_id, url
-    :return: A tuple with the crawled data, containing (product_id, vendor_id, price_in_cents)
-    """
-    return (product_info['product_id'], product_info['vendor_id'], 123)
-
-
-def __crawl_apple__(product_info: dict) -> tuple:
-    """
-    Crawls the price for the given product from apple
-    :param product_info: A dict with product info containing product_id, vendor_id, url
-    :return: A tuple with the crawled data, containing (product_id, vendor_id, price_in_cents)
-    """
-    return (product_info['product_id'], product_info['vendor_id'], 123)
-
-
-def __crawl_mediamarkt__(product_info: dict) -> tuple:
-    """
-    Crawls the price for the given product from media markt
-    :param product_info: A dict with product info containing product_id, vendor_id, url
-    :return: A tuple with the crawled data, containing (product_id, vendor_id, price_in_cents)
-    """
-    pass
+import sql
+import requests
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+
+HEADERS = ({'User-Agent':
+                'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.138 '
+                'Safari/537.36'})
+
+
+def crawl(product_ids: [int]) -> dict:
+    """
+    Crawls the given list of products and saves the results to sql
+    :param products: The list of product IDs to fetch
+    :return: A dict with the following fields:
+                total_crawls: number of total crawl tries (products * vendors per product)
+                successful_crawls: number of successful products
+                products_with_problems: list of products that have not been crawled successfully
+    """
+    total_crawls = 0
+    successful_crawls = 0
+    products_with_problems = []
+
+    # Iterate over every product that has to be crawled
+    for product_id in product_ids:
+        # Get all links for this product
+        product_links = sql.getProductLinksForProduct(product_id)
+
+        crawled_data = []
+
+        # Iterate over every link / vendor
+        for product_vendor_info in product_links:
+            total_crawls += 1
+
+            # Call the appropriate vendor crawling function and append the result to the list of crawled data
+            if product_vendor_info['vendor_id'] == 1:
+                # Amazon
+                data = __crawl_amazon__(product_vendor_info)
+                if data:
+                    crawled_data.append(data)
+            elif product_vendor_info['vendor_id'] == 2:
+                # Apple
+                data = __crawl_apple__(product_vendor_info)
+                if data:
+                    crawled_data.append(data)
+            elif product_vendor_info['vendor_id'] == 3:
+                # Media Markt
+                data = __crawl_mediamarkt__(product_vendor_info)
+                if data:
+                    crawled_data.append(data)
+            else:
+                products_with_problems.append(product_vendor_info)
+                continue
+
+            successful_crawls += 1
+
+        # Insert data to SQL
+        sql.insertData(crawled_data)
+
+    return {
+        'total_crawls': total_crawls,
+        'successful_crawls': successful_crawls,
+        'products_with_problems': products_with_problems
+    }
+
+
+def __crawl_amazon__(product_info: dict) -> tuple:
+    """
+    Crawls the price for the given product from amazon
+    :param product_info: A dict with product info containing product_id, vendor_id, url
+    :return: A tuple with the crawled data, containing (product_id, vendor_id, price_in_cents)
+    """
+    page = requests.get(product_info['url'], headers=HEADERS)
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(page.content, features="lxml")
+    try:
+        price = int(
+            soup.find(id='priceblock_ourprice').get_text().replace(".", "").replace(",", "").replace("€", "").strip())
+        if not price:
+            price = int(soup.find(id='price_inside_buybox').get_text().replace(".", "").replace(",", "").replace("€", "").strip())
+
+    except RuntimeError:
+        price = -1
+    except AttributeError:
+        price = -1
+
+    if price != -1:
+        return (product_info['product_id'], product_info['vendor_id'], price)
+    else:
+        return None
+
+
+def __crawl_apple__(product_info: dict) -> tuple:
+    """
+    Crawls the price for the given product from apple
+    :param product_info: A dict with product info containing product_id, vendor_id, url
+    :return: A tuple with the crawled data, containing (product_id, vendor_id, price_in_cents)
+    """
+    # return (product_info['product_id'], product_info['vendor_id'], 123)
+    pass
+
+
+def __crawl_mediamarkt__(product_info: dict) -> tuple:
+    """
+    Crawls the price for the given product from media markt
+    :param product_info: A dict with product info containing product_id, vendor_id, url
+    :return: A tuple with the crawled data, containing (product_id, vendor_id, price_in_cents)
+    """
+    pass

Crawler/crawler/spiders/amazon.py

@@ -1,66 +0,0 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-import scrapy
-from urllib.parse import urlencode
-from urllib.parse import urljoin
-import re
-import json
-
-queries = ['iphone']
-API = ''
-
-
-def get_url(url):
-    payload = {'api_key': API, 'url': url, 'country_code': 'us'}
-    proxy_url = 'http://api.scraperapi.com/?' + urlencode(payload)
-    return proxy_url
-
-
-class AmazonSpider(scrapy.Spider):
-    name = 'amazon'
-
-    def start_requests(self):
-        for query in queries:
-            url = 'https://www.amazon.de/s?' + urlencode({'k': query})
-            yield scrapy.Request(url=url, callback=self.parse_keyword_response)
-
-    def parse_keyword_response(self, response):
-        products = response.xpath('//*[@data-asin]')
-
-        for product in products:
-            asin = product.xpath('@data-asin').extract_first()
-            product_url = f"https://www.amazon.de/dp/{asin}"
-            yield scrapy.Request(url=product_url, callback=self.parse_product_page, meta={'asin': asin})
-
-        next_page = response.xpath('//li[@class="a-last"]/a/@href').extract_first()
-        if next_page:
-            url = urljoin("https://www.amazon.de", next_page)
-            yield scrapy.Request(url=url, callback=self.parse_keyword_response)
-
-    def parse_product_page(self, response):
-        asin = response.meta['asin']
-        title = response.xpath('//*[@id="productTitle"]/text()').extract_first()
-        image = re.search('"large":"(.*?)"', response.text).groups()[0]
-        rating = response.xpath('//*[@id="acrPopover"]/@title').extract_first()
-        number_of_reviews = response.xpath('//*[@id="acrCustomerReviewText"]/text()').extract_first()
-        price = response.xpath('//*[@id="priceblock_ourprice"]/text()').extract_first()
-
-        if not price:
-            price = response.xpath('//*[@data-asin-price]/@data-asin-price').extract_first() or \
-                    response.xpath('//*[@id="price_inside_buybox"]/text()').extract_first()
-
-        temp = response.xpath('//*[@id="twister"]')
-        sizes = []
-        colors = []
-        if temp:
-            s = re.search('"variationValues" : ({.*})', response.text).groups()[0]
-            json_acceptable = s.replace("'", "\"")
-            di = json.loads(json_acceptable)
-            sizes = di.get('size_name', [])
-            colors = di.get('color_name', [])
-
-        bullet_points = response.xpath('//*[@id="feature-bullets"]//li/span/text()').extract()
-        seller_rank = response.xpath(
-            '//*[text()="Amazon Best Sellers Rank:"]/parent::*//text()[not(parent::style)]').extract()
-        yield {'asin': asin, 'Title': title, 'MainImage': image, 'Rating': rating, 'NumberOfReviews': number_of_reviews,
-               'Price': price, 'AvailableSizes': sizes, 'AvailableColors': colors, 'BulletPoints': bullet_points,
-               'SellerRank': seller_rank}

Crawler/requirements.txt

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 pymysql
-flask
+flask==1.1.2
 flask-sqlalchemy
 flask_restful
-scrapy
+beautifulsoup4
+requests
+lxml

Crawler/sql.py

@@ -54,7 +54,6 @@ def getProductLinksForProduct(product_id: int) -> [dict]:
     cur = conn.cursor()
 
     query = 'SELECT vendor_id, url FROM product_links WHERE product_id = %s'
-
     cur.execute(query, (product_id,))
 
     products = list(map(lambda x: {'product_id': product_id, 'vendor_id': x[0], 'url': x[1]}, cur.fetchall()))

Crawler/unused/scrapy/amazonspider.py

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+import scrapy
+from scrapy.crawler import CrawlerProcess
+import re
+
+class AmazonSpider(scrapy.Spider):
+    name = 'amazon'
+    allowed_domains = ['amazon.de']
+    start_urls = ['https://amazon.de/dp/B083DRCPJG']
+
+    # def __init__(self, start_urls):
+    #   self.start_urls = start_urls
+
+    def parse(self, response):
+        price = response.xpath('//*[@id="priceblock_ourprice"]/text()').extract_first()
+        if not price:
+            price = response.xpath('//*[@data-asin-price]/@data-asin-price').extract_first() or \
+                    response.xpath('//*[@id="price_inside_buybox"]/text()').extract_first()
+
+        euros = re.match('(\d*),\d\d', price).group(1)
+        cents = re.match('\d*,(\d\d)', price).group(1)
+        priceincents = euros + cents
+
+        yield {'price': priceincents}
+
+
+def start_crawling():
+    process = CrawlerProcess(
+        settings={'COOKIES_ENABLED': 'False', 'CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_IP': 1, 'ROBOTSTXT_OBEY': False,
+                  'USER_AGENT': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.138 Safari/537.36',
+                  'DOWNLOAD_DELAY': 3}
+        , install_root_handler=False)
+    process.crawl()
+    process.start()

Crawler/unused/scrapy/scrapy.cfg

@@ -8,4 +8,4 @@ default = crawler.settings
 
 [deploy]
 #url = http://localhost:6800/
-project = crawler
+project = crawler

Crawler/unused/scrapy/spiders/amazon.py

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+import scrapy
+import re
+
+class AmazonSpider(scrapy.Spider):
+    name = 'amazon'
+    allowed_domains = ['amazon.de']
+    start_urls = ['https://amazon.de/dp/B083DRCPJG']
+
+    def parse(self, response):
+        price = response.xpath('//*[@id="priceblock_ourprice"]/text()').extract_first()
+        if not price:
+            price = response.xpath('//*[@data-asin-price]/@data-asin-price').extract_first() or \
+                    response.xpath('//*[@id="price_inside_buybox"]/text()').extract_first()
+
+        euros = re.match('(\d*),\d\d', price).group(1)
+        cents = re.match('\d*,(\d\d)', price).group(1)
+        priceincents = euros + cents
+
+        yield {'price': priceincents}
+
+
+
+
+
+

Frontend/src/app/models/pricealarm.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+export interface PriceAlarm {
+    alarm_id: number;
+    user_id: number;
+    product_id: number;
+    defined_price: number;
+}

Frontend/src/app/services/api.service.ts

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import {Product} from '../models/product';
 import {Price} from '../models/price';
 import {Observable, of} from 'rxjs';
 import {Vendor} from '../models/vendor';
+import {PriceAlarm} from '../models/pricealarm';
 
 @Injectable({
     providedIn: 'root'
@@ -17,83 +18,191 @@ export class ApiService {
     ) {
     }
 
+
+    /*   ____                 __           __
+        / __ \_________  ____/ /_  _______/ /______
+       / /_/ / ___/ __ \/ __  / / / / ___/ __/ ___/
+      / ____/ /  / /_/ / /_/ / /_/ / /__/ /_(__  )
+     /_/   /_/   \____/\__,_/\__,_/\___/\__/____/
+    */
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the specified product from the API
+     * @param id The id of the product to get
+     * @return Observable<Product> An observable containing a single product
+     */
     getProduct(id): Observable<Product> {
         try {
-            const prod = this.http.get<Product>((this.apiUrl + '/products/' + id));
-            return prod;
+            return this.http.get<Product>((this.apiUrl + '/products/' + id));
         } catch (exception) {
             process.stderr.write(`ERROR received from ${this.apiUrl}: ${exception}\n`);
         }
     }
 
+
+    /**
+     * Gets a list of products that match the given search term
+     * @param query The search term to match
+     * @return Observable<Product[]> An observable list of products
+     */
     getProductsByQuery(query): Observable<Product[]> {
         try {
-            const prods = this.http.get<Product[]>((this.apiUrl + '/products/search/' + query));
-            return prods;
+            return this.http.get<Product[]>((this.apiUrl + '/products/search/' + query));
         } catch (exception) {
             process.stderr.write(`ERROR received from ${this.apiUrl}: ${exception}\n`);
         }
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Gets a list of all products
+     * @return Observable<Product[]> An observable list of products
+     */
     getProducts(): Observable<Product[]> {
         try {
-            const prods = this.http.get<Product[]>((this.apiUrl + '/products'));
-            return prods;
+            return this.http.get<Product[]>((this.apiUrl + '/products'));
         } catch (exception) {
             process.stderr.write(`ERROR received from ${this.apiUrl}: ${exception}\n`);
         }
     }
 
+
+    /*    ____       _
+         / __ \_____(_)_______  _____
+        / /_/ / ___/ / ___/ _ \/ ___/
+       / ____/ /  / / /__/  __(__  )
+      /_/   /_/  /_/\___/\___/____/
+     */
+
+    /**
+     * Gets a list of all prices
+     * @return Observable<Price[]> An observable list of prices
+     */
     getPrices(): Observable<Price[]> {
         try {
-            const prices = this.http.get<Price[]>((this.apiUrl + '/prices'));
-            return prices;
+            return this.http.get<Price[]>((this.apiUrl + '/prices'));
         } catch (exception) {
             process.stderr.write(`ERROR received from ${this.apiUrl}: ${exception}\n`);
         }
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Gets the lowest prices of every vendor for the given product
+     * @param productId The product id of the product to fetch the prices for
+     * @return Observable<Price[]> An observable list of prices
+     */
     getLowestPrices(productId): Observable<Price[]> {
         try {
             let params = new HttpParams();
             params = params.append('product', productId);
             params = params.append('type', 'lowest');
-            const prices = this.http.get<Price[]>((this.apiUrl + '/prices'), {params});
-            return prices;
+            return this.http.get<Price[]>((this.apiUrl + '/prices'), {params});
         } catch (exception) {
             process.stderr.write(`ERROR received from ${this.apiUrl}: ${exception}\n`);
         }
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Gets the latest amazon price for the given product
+     * @param productId The product id of the product to get the price for
+     * @return Observable<Price> An observable containing a single price
+     */
     getAmazonPrice(productId): Observable<Price> {
         try {
             let params = new HttpParams();
             params = params.append('product', productId);
             params = params.append('vendor', '1');
             params = params.append('type', 'newest');
-            const price = this.http.get<Price>((this.apiUrl + '/prices'), {params});
-            return price;
+            return this.http.get<Price>((this.apiUrl + '/prices'), {params});
         } catch (exception) {
             process.stderr.write(`ERROR received from ${this.apiUrl}: ${exception}\n`);
         }
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Gets the newest prices of every vendor for the given product
+     * @param productId The product id of the product to fetch the prices for
+     * @return Observable<Price[]> An observable list of prices
+     */
     getCurrentPricePerVendor(productId): Observable<Price[]> {
         try {
             let params = new HttpParams();
             params = params.append('product', productId);
             params = params.append('type', 'newest');
-            const prices = this.http.get<Price[]>((this.apiUrl + '/prices'), {params});
-            return prices;
+            return this.http.get<Price[]>((this.apiUrl + '/prices'), {params});
         } catch (exception) {
             process.stderr.write(`ERROR received from ${this.apiUrl}: ${exception}\n`);
         }
     }
 
+
+    /*  _    __               __
+       | |  / /__  ____  ____/ /___  __________
+       | | / / _ \/ __ \/ __  / __ \/ ___/ ___/
+       | |/ /  __/ / / / /_/ / /_/ / /  (__  )
+       |___/\___/_/ /_/\__,_/\____/_/  /____/
+     */
+
+    /**
+     * Gets a list of all vendors
+     * @return Observable<Vendor[]> An observable list of vendors
+     */
     getVendors(): Observable<Vendor[]> {
         try {
-            const vendors = this.http.get<Vendor[]>((this.apiUrl + '/vendors'));
-            return vendors;
+            return this.http.get<Vendor[]>((this.apiUrl + '/vendors'));
+        } catch (exception) {
+            process.stderr.write(`ERROR received from ${this.apiUrl}: ${exception}\n`);
+        }
+    }
+
+
+    /*     ____       _              ___    __
+          / __ \_____(_)_______     /   |  / /___ __________ ___  _____
+         / /_/ / ___/ / ___/ _ \   / /| | / / __ `/ ___/ __ `__ \/ ___/
+        / ____/ /  / / /__/  __/  / ___ |/ / /_/ / /  / / / / / (__  )
+       /_/   /_/  /_/\___/\___/  /_/  |_/_/\__,_/_/  /_/ /_/ /_/____/
+     */
+
+    /**
+     * Gets a list of all price alarms
+     * @return Observable<PriceAlarm[]> An observable list of price alarms
+     */
+    getPriceAlarms(): Observable<PriceAlarm[]> {
+        try {
+            return this.http.get<PriceAlarm[]>((this.apiUrl + '/pricealarms'));
+        } catch (exception) {
+            process.stderr.write(`ERROR received from ${this.apiUrl}: ${exception}\n`);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Creates a new price alarm
+     * @param productId The product id of the product to create the alarm for
+     * @param definedPrice The defined target price
+     * @return Observable<any> The observable response of the api
+     */
+    createPriceAlarms(productId: number, definedPrice: number): Observable<any> {
+        try {
+            return this.http.post((this.apiUrl + '/pricealarms'), JSON.stringify({
+                product_id: productId,
+                defined_price: definedPrice
+            }));
+        } catch (exception) {
+            process.stderr.write(`ERROR received from ${this.apiUrl}: ${exception}\n`);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Updates the given price alarm
+     * @param alarmId The alarm id of the alarm to update
+     * @param definedPrice The defined target price
+     * @return Observable<any> The observable response of the api
+     */
+    updatePriceAlarms(alarmId: number, definedPrice: number): Observable<any> {
+        try {
+            return this.http.put((this.apiUrl + '/pricealarms'), JSON.stringify({
+                alarm_id: alarmId,
+                defined_price: definedPrice
+            }));
         } catch (exception) {
             process.stderr.write(`ERROR received from ${this.apiUrl}: ${exception}\n`);
         }