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CORS (Cross Origin Resource Sharing) is not enabled in the API, making it unable to fetch data using this api from a application running on different server.

In the file nith_result/templates/nith_resut/home.html the form is rendered using bootstrap 3.4.0 which is old and incompatible with new versions. Modify the form to work with bootstrap 4.3.1.

How this may work.

• clicking user may be asked to send their roll number -> scrap the result of that student -> if it matches with databases Stop further and send Already up-to-date, otherwise update all of the results and send updating-results.

Precautions

• avoid running multiple instances of updating results ( skip if already fetching ).

Reason
Results of some Students get updated dynamically ( on times we don't expect )
eg -

• students which have wrong result on official website which gets updated on request
• result of supplementary exams

Solution / Feature
Need an API endpoint [POST] to update a particular result by re scraping it from the official website.

in case of fetching student results for entire college an application may require data in sorted order considering that the pagination in active on the api application will need to first fetch all the data and then sort at front end which will ruin the purpose of pagination.

required something like this..
/api/result/student?order=sgpi&dir=DESC

please increase pagination limit to 150, as now there are usually more then 100 students in one class so it would need two fetch requests to the API to fetch the result of 105 students. which could have been done in one.

api/result/student?branch=cse&roll=18%&limit=150

also can there be an api endpoint to fetch the results of a class like..
api/result/student?branch=cse&year=2018

current hack is..
api/result/student?branch=cse&roll=18%

which works perfectly fine but.

Heroku doesn't provide persistent storage, so updating result via endpoint is not possible, so ..

• MongoDB Atlas (Free Tier) - 512MB
• Heroku Postgres (10,000 rows)