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Outline of the task:

Create a new API Endpoint at GET/mentorship_relations/count_pending which counts the number of pending mentorship relations of the current user. Return a dictionary response with key "count" and value as the number of pending mentorship relations.

Steps:

1. Setup the mentorship-backend repository locally
2. Create a new model for a response body with name "count_pending_requests_response_body" and add it to the namespace of Mentorship Relations. The models can be found here
3. In MentorshipRelationDAO, create a static method to count the pending mentorship relations. The DAO can be found here.
4. Finally, create a new route "/mentorship_relations/count_pending" which returns the "count_pending_requests_response_body" as response with status code 200. The file for creating the route is located here
5. Commit your changes using our Commit message Style Guide.
6. Submit a Pull Request, against gci-dev branch against the listed issue.
7. Send mentorship requests on the Swagger with the current user as mentor/mentee.
8. Submit a swagger screenshot of "/mentorship_relations/count_pending" [#Screenshot 1] and a screenshot of list of pending mentorship requests on "/mentorship_relations/pending" [#Screenshot 2]. Make sure that the number of requests match.

Resources:

• If you need help or get lost, post a response to our questions topic in our #gci stream.

Work Submission

Submit a link to Pull Request (PR) created with the changes as listed in the GitHub issue, and the 2 screenshots