WhistleblowerApplication

The "Whistleblower" project is a Restful service.

A whistleblower platform involves various components, including a web application for reporting, a database to store information securely, and backend logic to handle submissions. Below is a simplified example of a whistleblower platform using Java with Spring Boot, a popular Java framework.

Note: This example assumes you have some familiarity with Java, Spring Boot, and web development.

The service will enable to:

• to get all reports from the system;
• to submit report to the system;
• to show the dashboard of the system.

Technology stack:

• Java 17
• Spring Boot Starter 3.1.2
• Spring Boot Starter Data JPA 3.1.2
• Spring Boot Starter Thymeleaf 3.1.2
• Spring Boot Starter Web 3.1.2
• MySQL 8.0.20
• Jakarta Persistence API 3.1.0
• JUnit 4.13.2

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Installing

Clone this repository to your local machine using:

git clone https://github.com/invzbl3/WhistleblowerApplication.git

Create a database by specifying URL for connection:

jdbc:mysql://localhost/whistleblower_db?allowPublicKeyRetrieval=true&autoReconnect=true&useSSL=false&useUnicode=true&serverTimezone=UTC&characterEncoding=UTF8

using own datasource username & password

Run the Application:

Run your Spring Boot application, and it will start a server on localhost:8080 or accordingly as:

• http://localhost:8080/api/reports/dashboard;
• http://localhost:8080/api/reports;
• http://localhost:8080/favicon.ico.

REST Endpoints for WhistleblowerApplication

Report Controller

HTTP Method	REST Endpoint	Description
GET	/api/reports/dashboard	show the dashboard of the system
GET	/api/reports	get all reports from the system
GET	/api/favicon.ico	display favicon to the user

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To run Maven lifecycle command under the option "Run", you need to add the following command as:

clean install -U

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To run Spring Boot application, you need to add inside Environment variables as:

DB_PASSWORD=...

All these REST endpoints are intended for use in the application.