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William Carroll
8c5e4e77ed Expose functions at API layer
Creating a simple HTTP RESTful API for exposing our `Server.semiprime`
function. It supports some help messages, primitive parsing and error handling,
and singular vs. batch processing of arguments.

For more sophisticated parsing and error-checking, I prefer to use Haskell's
Servant library.
2020-12-12 02:43:40 +00:00
William Carroll
45877a8b9c Include cache hit/miss info in return type
This can be useful downstream for diagnostics.
2020-12-12 02:43:35 +00:00
William Carroll
ee96a818e1 Define Server.semiprime
- Clear the boilerplate that `mix` generated
- Consume `Math.factor` to test which inputs are semiprimes
- Cache all inputs that are semiprimes as soon as we discover that they are
- semiprimes

I considered a couple things related to the Cache:
- Could save space by storing all semiprime factors in a tree. This would make
  the lookups more expensive. Also because the tree's depth would never exceed
  two (because all semiprimes only have two factors), the tree would be quite
  broad, and we may not be saving enough space for the trade to be worthwhile. I
  might be wrong about that though.
- We could consider pre-computing all semiprimes when we start the app, but
  without running some tests firsts, I'm not sure whether or not it's worth the
  trouble.
2020-12-12 01:32:31 +00:00
William Carroll
ab73220280 Define Cache.{list,clear} to help debugging
Since I'm often using `iex` for interactive development, these functions are
useful.
2020-12-12 01:31:51 +00:00
William Carroll
714ec29743 Define Cache and convert app to OTP
Define a simple in-memory key-value store for our cache.

TL;DR:
- Define `Cache` as a simple state-keeping `Agent`
- Define `Sup`, which starts our Cache process
- Define `App`, which starts our Supervisor process
- Whitelist `App` in `mix.exs`, so that it starts after calling `iex -S mix`
2020-12-12 01:04:39 +00:00
William Carroll
c0a88ba7d5 Add moduledoc to Extras
9 out of 10 doctors agree that every module needs a doc. Ask your doctor if
moduledocs are right for you!
2020-12-11 22:48:12 +00:00
William Carroll
f1e4582392 Define Math module
Support `Math.factor` and cover it with tests.
2020-12-11 22:43:26 +00:00
William Carroll
6af5e4b82e Define Extras module
I'll use as the host for utility functions needed to extend the stdlib.
2020-12-11 22:42:55 +00:00
William Carroll
6ff814a6d3 Init Elixir project
Starting fresh with...

```shell
mix new server
```
2020-12-11 22:42:16 +00:00