I have set up the web application that uses React and Django and learned about how to get and send data between React and Django using Axios, which can send GET and POST requests between React and Django, and learned about the Django REST framework, which can take data from the POST requests and create objects based on the Django models to store in the database. Though I have some experience with React and Django, I had no experience with using Axios and the Django REST framework, which took a few hours of learning and debugging to learn the full capabilities of these tools. After learning these tools, I implemented allowing the user to upload images for pet classification. Specifically, I designed a frontend page that allows users to upload images and a Django model to store these images and the type of these images (png, jpeg, etc.). After the user uploads an image, a POST request is called using Axios that sends the image to the Django REST framework, which creates an object based on the Django model specified above that stores the images into the database.
Based on my schedule, I am currently behind on tasks for the web application side. The plan is to push back my tasks back a week as I have other work commitments this week and have been having technical issues with my computer recently, and there are no major tasks that other people are relying on me finishing at the moment so pushing back tasks by a week is okay.
The task I hope to work on this week is to test our ideas related to users choosing forbidden zones for a pet. I want to test both the frontend, specifically users choosing spots, which designate forbidden zones, on a grid overtop a 2D room image, and the backend, specifically storing this data in an array-like structure, implementation of these tasks. Though I am pushing back tasks by a week, I believe this is an important task to do before spring break as it is a core task of the project that other teammates will eventually rely on, and it is important to see what changes I will have to make based on testing our implementation ideas of the forbidden zones this week.
