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loans

A sample loan app for pezesha technical test.
Bulit with spring-boot, Mysql, JDK 17

Prerequisites

  1. MySQL running locally on port 3306.
  2. JDK version 17.
  3. A Rest client like postman or insomnia to test the rest endpoint.
  4. git if using unix based machine or git-bash if on windows.
  5. maven version 3.8.7

How to sun the application

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/chess254/loans.git

NB: Make sure the database is running on the host and port configured above before continuing to the following steps and localhost port 8080 is open.

Edit the application.properties file in loans/src/main/resources and provide values for
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://<host>:<port>/<database_name>
spring.datasource.username=<database_username>
spring.datasource.password=<database_user_password>
substitute
<host> (the url in which the mysql database is running locally)
<port> (port in which db is listening)
<database_username> ( username to the database)
<database_user_password (password for the database)>
open your terminal and navigate to the cloned folder

cd loans

clean and install the dependencies using maven

mvn clean (on unix based) or .\mvnw clean (on windows) then

mvn install () or .\mvnw install to add the projects dependencies using maven and run the tests.

Run mvn spring-boot:run (unix based ) or .\mvnw spring-boot:run (on windows) This will seed the database with initial dummy data from file loans/src/main/resources/schema.sql and start the application.

Task: 1 A simple money transfer REST API

Endpoints


1. To add a new account

 POST 
 localhost:8080/accounts

sample JSON payload: deposit Must be positive

{"deposit":  2222}

sample JSON Response

{
	"id": 6,
	"balance": 2222
}



2. To retrieve all accounts.

 GET 
 localhost:8080/accounts

sample JSON Response

[
 {
  "id": 1,
  "balance": 1000.00
 },
 {
  "id": 2,
  "balance": 500.00
 },
 {
  "id": 3,
  "balance": 2000.00
 },
 {
  "id": 4,
  "balance": 300.00
 },
 {
  "id": 5,
  "balance": 1500.00
 },
 {
  "id": 6,
  "balance": 2222.00
 }
]



3. To retrieve account information by id.

 GET 
 localhost:8080/accounts/{id}

sample JSON Response

{
	"id": 6,
	"balance": 2222.00
}



4. To transfer money from one account to another.

POST                                     
localhost:8080/transfers

The fields sourceAccountId & destinationAccountId must be valid accounts in the database and amount should be greater than zero. source account must have sufficient balance fot transfer to be successful.

sample JSON payload:

{
  "sourceAccountId" : 1,
  "destinationAccountId" : 5,
  "amount" : 500
}

sample JSON response:

{
	"id": 1,
	"sourceAccount": {
		"id": 5,
		"balance": 1000.00
	},
	"destinationAccount": {
		"id": 1,
		"balance": 1500.00
	},
	"amount": 500,
	"timestamp": "2023-04-11T06:43:50.8824894"
}

Task: 2 loan repayment calculator

In a web browser navigate to the http://localhost:8080/form to display form that takes in input values. Fill in the form and submit to display a table showing the breakdown of the loan repayments over the loan term.

or

Alternatively you can use the following endpoints that return the data in JSON format:

 POST 
 localhost:8080/calculate

sample JSON payload: Must be positive. The value for repaymentFrequency is;

0 for monthly,

1 for bi monthly

or 2 for Weekly.

{
 "loanAmount" :100,
 "loanTermMonths" : 2,
 "interestRate" : 10,
 "repaymentFrequency" : 1
}

sample JSON response:

{
 "loanAmount": 100.0,
 "loanTermMonths": 2,
 "interestRate": 10.0,
 "repaymentFrequency": "BIMONTHLY",
 "repayments": [
  {
   "month": 1,
   "paymentAmount": 51.25,
   "principal": 49.59,
   "interest": 1.67,
   "balance": 50.41
  },
  {
   "month": 2,
   "paymentAmount": 51.25,
   "principal": 50.41,
   "interest": 0.84,
   "balance": 0.0
  }
 ],
 "totalPaymentAmount": 102.5,
 "totalPrincipal": 100.0,
 "totalInterest": 2.51
}