#60 added the post variant of the summarize api (nlp) endpoint

src/nlp/app/nlp_server.py

-from fastapi import FastAPI
+from fastapi import FastAPI, Request
 
-from app.summary.summary_word_embedding import WordEmbeddingSummarizer
-from app.utilities import generator
 from app.summary.simple_spacy_summarizer import SimpleSpacySummarizer
-from app.summary.summary_sentence_embedding import SentenceEmbeddingSummarizer
 from app.summary.summarization_with_strategy_TFIDF import SummaryTFIDF
 from app.summary.summary_bert import BertSummary
+from app.summary.summary_sentence_embedding import SentenceEmbeddingSummarizer
+from app.summary.summary_word_embedding import WordEmbeddingSummarizer
+from app.utilities import generator
 
 app = FastAPI(
     title="IntentFinder: NLP-API",
@@ -47,9 +47,7 @@ async def api_strategies():
     return res
 
 
-@app.get("/summarize/{strategy_id}", summary="Generate a summary of the given"
-                                             " text.")
-async def summarize(strategy_id: str, max_length: int, text: str):
+async def call_strategy(strategy_id: str, text: str, max_length: int):
     """
     This function will summarize a given text with a given summarization
     strategy
@@ -69,6 +67,36 @@ async def summarize(strategy_id: str, max_length: int, text: str):
     return {"error": "invalid id"}
 
 
+@app.get("/summarize/{strategy_id}", summary="Generate a summary of the given"
+                                             " text.")
+async def get_summarize(strategy_id: str, max_length: int, text: str):
+    """
+    get variant of the summarize api endpoint
+
+    :param max_length: max number of characters in the summarization
+    :param strategy_id: The id of the strategy
+    :param text: The text to be summarized
+    :return: The summary, strategy and quality of the summary in JSON format
+    """
+    return await call_strategy(strategy_id, text, max_length)
+
+
+@app.post("/summarize/{strategy_id}", summary="Generate a summary of the given"
+                                              " text.")
+async def post_summarize(strategy_id: str, req: Request):
+    """
+    post variant of the summarize api endpoint
+
+    :param strategy_id: The id of the strategy
+    :param req: The post body of the Request. Should have a text and maxLength
+    field.
+    :return: The summary, strategy and quality of the summary in JSON format
+    """
+    req_json = await req.json()
+    return await call_strategy(strategy_id, req_json["text"],
+                               req_json["maxLength"])
+
+
 @app.post("/intentid", summary="Generate an intent id from a given intent"
                                " text")
 async def generate_intent_id(intent: str, max_tokens: int):

src/nlp/app/tests/test_nlp_server.py

 from unittest import TestCase
-import app.nlp_server
+
 from fastapi.testclient import TestClient
+
+import app.nlp_server
 from app.summary.summary_strategy_interface import ISummaryStrategy
 
+import json
+
 
 class TestStrategy1(ISummaryStrategy):
     """
@@ -55,9 +59,10 @@ class TestNlpApi(TestCase):
         assert response.status_code == 200
         assert response.json() == ["test1", "test2"]
 
-    def test_summarize(self):
+    def test_get_summarize(self):
         """
-        In this case the "/summarize/{strategy}" path of the rest api is tested
+        In this case the get variant of the "/summarize/{strategy}"
+        path of the rest api is tested
         """
 
         # init test client
@@ -77,3 +82,27 @@ class TestNlpApi(TestCase):
         assert response2.status_code == 200
         assert response2.json() == {"strategy": "test2",
                                     "quality": 0.5, "summary": "result text"}
+
+    def test_post_summarize(self):
+        """
+        In this case the post variant of the "/summarize/{strategy}"
+        path of the rest api is tested
+        """
+
+        app.nlp_server.strategies = [TestStrategy1(), TestStrategy2()]
+        client = TestClient(app.nlp_server.app)
+        test_data = json.dumps({"text": "test text", "maxLength": 130})
+
+        # run test
+        response1 = client.post(
+            "/summarize/test1", test_data)
+        response2 = client.post(
+            "/summarize/test2", test_data)
+
+        # assert result
+        assert response1.status_code == 200
+        assert response1.json() == {"strategy": "test1",
+                                    "quality": 0.5, "summary": "test text"}
+        assert response2.status_code == 200
+        assert response2.json() == {"strategy": "test2",
+                                    "quality": 0.5, "summary": "result text"}