This is a Spring Java REST API that will persist to a PostgreSQL database. For this means of this small project, the API will be for holding Film data, that is with attributes such as id, description, title, rating, author, etc... You can edit the code to fit whatever need you have.
This application will use an embedded Apache Tomcat server. There are many uses for a RESTful API, currently, I have this REST API running as a backend application behind my Apache Server that is serving my portfolio website at http://alpizano.me. To do this similiar setup, you would need to setup a reverse proxy to re-route all traffic coming into port 80 (HTTP) to your backend service of your choice.
- The repo uses a PostgreSQL database, so download and install that first:
https://www.postgresql.org/download/
- Download GUI for PostgreSQL. You can use PSQL in terminal or PGAdmin, though I recommend DBBeaver for its ease of use
- Default user is
postgresand default password ispostgres - Make a new database using PSQL, PGAdmin, or DBBeaver
- You will need to edit the
application.propertiesfile in thesrc/main/resourcesdirectory to your own postgres user, password, and database name credentials.
You can try removing all the contents of the
application.propertiesfile and the Spring Boot app should use the in-memory H2 database if you don't feel like setting PostgreSQL up.
If you would like to try these endpoints live on my server, replace
localhost:8080, withalpizano.me
curl -X GET http://localhost:8080/film
- Returns a list of film objects as JSON response
curl -X GET http://localhost:8080/film/show/1
curl -X POST --header "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{"title": "boogers","description":"a","director": "b", "producer": "c", "release_date": "d", "rt_score": "e"}' http://alpizano.me/api/film/
curl -X DELETE