Mentoring Backend

This project is a Micronaut-based backend application designed to support mentoring processes in healthcare and related domains.
It provides APIs for managing sessions, mentors, mentees, forms, questions, and reporting, with integration to databases and messaging systems.

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🚀 Features

• Built with **Micronaut 3.8.
• REST API with JWT authentication.
• Persistence with MariaDB using JPA & Hibernate.
• Database migrations with Liquibase.
• Background tasks for notifications and AI-assisted summaries.
• Docker-ready for deployment.
• Integration with Kafka or ActiveMQ Artemis (configurable).
• Caching support.

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📂 Project Structure

/backend
 ├── src/main/java/mz/org/fgh/mentoring   # Main source code
 ├── src/main/resources                   # Config files (application.yml, logback.xml, etc.)
 ├── db/liquibase-changelog.xml           # Database migrations
 ├── Dockerfile                           # Docker image build
 └── README.md                            # Project documentation

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⚙️ Configuration

Environment variables control sensitive settings such as:

• MENTORING_DB_HOST, MENTORING_DB_PORT, MENTORING_DB_USERNAME, MENTORING_DB_PASSWORD
• JWT_GENERATOR_SIGNATURE_SECRET
• MICRONAUT_ENVIRONMENTS (e.g., development, production)
• Logging levels set via ROOT_LOG_LEVEL

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🐳 Docker

Build and run the image:

docker build -t mentoring-backend:latest .
docker docker compose up -d

You can also use docker-compose.yml to orchestrate DB + backend.

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🗄️ Database

• MariaDB
• Migrations managed via Liquibase
• Ensure schema is initialized before starting the app

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🔒 Security

• Endpoints secured with @Secured(SecurityRule.IS_AUTHENTICATED)
• JWT Bearer token required for all API calls

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🧪 Tests

Run tests with:

./gradlew test

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📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

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✨ Authors

• C-SAÚDE and contributors