Adding first draft of script to do basic testing of data API routes.

scripts/test_data_api.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+# Script to do basic testing of data-api 
+
+# requires httpie installed
+http --version
+# test for special value returned when command not found
+if [ $? -eq 127 ]
+then 
+    echo "Error: httpie must be involved."
+    echo "install via: sudo apt install httpie"
+else
+    echo "httpie is installed, continuing"
+fi
+# test all the routes of the data API to be sure they respond
+# reference: idb-backend/blob/master/idb/data_api/config.py
+SUPPORTED_TYPES=( "recordsets" "records" "publishers" "mediarecords" )
+base_url="api.idigbio.org"
+api_version="v2"
+
+if [ "$1" == 'beta' ]
+then
+    env='beta'
+    hostname='beta-api'
+else
+if [ "$1" == 'prod' ]
+then
+    env='prod'
+    hostname='api'
+else
+    echo "Error: please specify prod or beta environment for testing"
+    echo "call script like this: ./test_data_api.sh beta"
+    exit
+fi
+fi
+
+route="view"
+testing_route="${hostname}.idigbio.org/$api_version/$route/"
+for i in "${SUPPORTED_TYPES[@]}"
+do
+    testing_url=${testing_route}$i
+    echo "testing $testing_url"
+    if http  --check-status --ignore-stdin $testing_url &> /dev/null; 
+    then
+        echo 'OK!'
+    else
+        case $? in
+            2) echo 'Request timed out!' ;;
+            3) echo 'Unexpected HTTP 3xx Redirection!' ;;
+            4) echo 'HTTP 4xx Client Error!' ;;
+            5) echo 'HTTP 5xx Server Error!' ;;
+            6) echo 'Exceeded --max-redirects=<n> redirects!' ;;
+            *) echo 'Other Error!' ;;
+        esac
+    fi
+done
+echo "Completed testing."