An exploration in using the Spray routing and HTTP client libraries, along with Spring and themoviedb.org API
This project was created primarily as an excuse to play around with the Spray libraries. It's essentially a set of proxy services for a very small subset of the API provided by themoviedb.org. The application uses Spray's routing DSL to define a set of RESTful services on the front end, and the Http client library to integrate with themoviedb.org on the backend.
Spring is used for no particularly good reason other than to show that it can be incorporated into a Spray/Akka application. The approach was pretty much lifted from Christopher Hunt's repository:
After cloning, the first thing you'll want to do before building and running the project is to register an account and request an API key at themoviedb.org.
Once you obtain an API key, open GlobalConstants.scala and replace putyourmoviedbapikeyhere with your API key.
If you want to import into Eclipse you must first open sbt then execute >eclipse. This builds the Eclipse project files.
The project builds and deploys to an embedded Jetty server using the xsbt-web-plugin.
To start the application, cd to the spray-moviedb directory, start sbt, and then execute >container:start
Sample requests are listed below:
####Movies / People
Search the movie catalog (query required, page optional):
http://localhost:8080/movies?query=fight&page=1
Get a movie by id:
http://localhost:8080/movies/100
Get movie cast by movie id:
http://localhost:8080/movies/100/cast
Get movie trailers by movie id:
http://localhost:8080/movies/100/trailers
Search for people (query required, page optional):
http://localhost:8080/people?query=Spacey&page=1
####Account / Favorites
The requests in this section require that you log into your moviedb account and grant permissions to the locally running app to access your user data.
- Open a browser and go to http://localhost:8080/login
- Login
- Select "Allow"
Get account information:
http://localhost:8080/account
Get favorite movies list:
http://localhost:8080/account/favorites
Add a movie (POST) to your favorite movies list:
http://localhost:8080/account/favorites
Request Body:
{ "movie_id": 103, "favorite": true }