URL Shortener

SpringBoot application to generate a short URL.

Installation

Download the repository.

$ git clone https://github.com/spcruzaley/urlshortener.git

Go to the repository folder and execute the following command in order to start the REST service.

$ cd urlshortener
$ mvn spring-boot:run

As soon as the application start, you can call the two endpoints generated (one for create a short url, the other one to get the original url for a given short url):

Generate a short url

Use a POST call given the url in json format as url: http(s)://www.some-url.com, for example:

$ curl -XPOST -d '{ "url": "http://www.google.com" }' -H "Content-type: application/json" http://localhost:8080/

You should to receive a response like this:

$ {"alias":"FRowa","url":"http://www.google.com","errorMessage":null}

Get an entry url for a given short url

Use a GET call to get an entry url base on the short url given, for example:

$ curl http://localhost:8080/FRowa

You should to receive a response like this:

$ {"alias":"FRowa","url":"http://www.google.com","errorMessage":null}

Aditional Info

The application uses Cache (https://spring.io/guides/gs/caching/) functionality to store the short url generates in memory, this will to allow us to get a short url faster and avoid to generate again the same url given.