Item Repository Spring Boot Application

Project Overview

This project contains an implementation of a simple repository for Items.

Application structure

The application is implemented as a Spring Boot application using an in memory H2 Database Engine to store the data.

The application is structured in a controller package with an ItemController that exposes REST endpoints. A model package with the data model.

To check the API documentation use the Swagger.

The main class in the application is com.cepheid.cloud.skel.SkelApplication. Running this class will start the application and insert four empty Item entities into the database.

New Features

• Added some attributes to the Item class, e.g. a name, a state that can have one of these three values (undefined, valid, invalid) etc.
• Created a new entity class Description, and setup a one to many relation between Item and Description. I.e. an Item has many Descriptions.
• Added Item CRUD methods to the controller.
• Added methods to the controller to query for specific Items based on it's attributes.
• Added Logging, Execption handling and pagination.

Pending Feature

• Junit Tests

Installation

Clone or download the repository from https://github.com/nick-pk/assignment

Project is configured to use JavaSE-8.

Project is tested using IntelliJ 2020.1

This is how you import the project into Eclipse:

1. Choose File->New-> Project From Version Control
2. Set Project root directory to where you cloned the repository.
3. Import Options, choose Gradle Wrapper.

Starting application/ Run Tests

Right click on com.cepheid.cloud.skel.SkelApplication and select Run As -> Java Application Right click on com.cepheid.cloud.skel.ItemControllerTest and select Run As -> JUnit Test

Useful Links

• https://spring.io/projects/spring-boot
• https://docs.spring.io/spring-data/jpa/docs/current/reference/html/
• https://www.h2database.com/html/main.html