⚾ Player Service

Player Service is a backend application that serves baseball player data. In addition, Player service integrates with Ollama, which allows us to run the tinyllama LLM locally.

Dependencies

• Java 17
• maven.apache.org
• Spring Boot 3.3.4 (with Spring Web MVC, Spring Data JPA)
• H2 Database
• Docker

🛠️ Setup Instructions

1. Verify system dependencies

   1. Java 17
      • Verify installation: java -version
   2. Maven
      • Download and install from maven.apache.org
      • Verify installation, run: mvn --version
      • Verify java version linked to maven is Java 17 Java version: 17.x.x
   3. Docker
      • Download and install from docker.com
      • Verify installation, run: docker --version

2. Clone this repository or Download the code as zip

   • run git clone https://github.com/Intuit-A4A/backend-java-player-service.git

Run the application

Part 1: Application Dependencies

1. Install application dependencies
   • From the project's root directory, run: mvn clean install -DskipTests

Part 2: Run Player Service (without LLM)

1. Start the Player service

   mvn spring-boot:run

2. Verify the Player service is running

   1. Open your browser and visit http://localhost:8080/v1/players
   2. If the application is running successfully, you will see player data appear in the browser

Part 3: Start LLM Docker Container

Player service integrates with Ollama 🦙, which allows us to run LLMs locally. This app runs tinyllama model.

• Ollama API documentation
• Ollama4J SDK

1. Pull and run Ollama docker image and download tinyllama model

   • Pull Ollama docker image

   docker pull ollama/ollama

2. Run Ollama docker image on port 11434 as a background process

   docker run -d -v ollama:/root/.ollama -p 11434:11434 --name ollama ollama/ollama

3. Download and run tinyllama model

   docker exec -it ollama ollama run tinyllama

4. Test Ollama API server

   curl -v --location 'http://localhost:11434/api/generate' --header 'Content-Type: application/json' --data '{"model": "tinyllama","prompt": "why is the sky blue?", "stream": false}'
   

Part 4: Verify Player Service and LLM Integration

1. Ensure Player Service is running from previous instructions. If not:

   mvn spring-boot:run

2. Open your browser and visit http://localhost:8080/v1/chat/list-models

   • If the application is running successfully, you will see a json response that include information about tinyllama