julweber/spring_api_example_2

A second spring api application that can be connected via REST or RabbitMQ.

Simple Spring API example 2

Providing a second spring api application that can be connected via REST or RabbitMQ.

Usage

# Build package
gradle build

# Initialize database
db/reset_database.sh

# Start server on port 8081
PORT=8081 gradle bootRun

Database Scripts

# Reset the database completely (DROP + CREATE)
db/reset_database.sh

Environment configuration

You can configure the server's behavior with OS environment variables as follows:

export RESULTS_PER_PAGE=10
gradle bootRun

Curl & jq

curl is a tool to send http requests from the console. jq is a tool to display json API outputs in a prettyfied format on the console. curl can be combined with a piped jq call to display request responses on the console.

REST Endpoints

# List messages
curl -v 'localhost:8081/v1/messages' |jq '.'

# Show a single message
curl -v 'localhost:8081/v1/messages/1' |jq '.'

# POST a new message
curl -v -X POST -d '{ "header": "My message header", "body" : "My Super Message", "recipient": "test@example.com" }' 'localhost:8081/v1/messages' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' |jq '.'

### Health status
curl localhost:8080/health |jq '.'