Spring Boot REST API with H2 Database

A small example in the form of a note-taking application built using Spring Boot for the REST API with H2 for a database. Demonstrates elementary CRUD operations in response to HTTP as well as returning JSON.

!!! TODO: FULL TESTS !!!

Getting Started

Installing

Make sure to edit your application.properties and change the database information to reflect where you would like H2 to create the DB file. It is currently set to the directly from which you are compiling the application.

spring.datasource.url=jdbc:h2:file:./notesDB
spring.datasource.driverClassName=org.h2.Driver
spring.datasource.username=berti
spring.datasource.password=

To test out this application, you need Maven to build the dependencies.

• First, install the dependencies

mvn clean install

Running

• Second, run the production build with live reload

mvn spring-boot:run

When the application is first built, it will create a database file in the directory specified in the application.properties file.

* Testing *

Maven Tests

mvn test

Curl Tests

The notes API lives at the route /api/notes. If your application is running on localhost:8080, you would access the API via http://localhost:8080/api/notes.

{
 "id" : 1,
 "body" : "Ask Larry about the TPS reports."
}

To create a new note, post a JSON payload to the API endpoint as modeled below:

POST /api/notes
BODY a note

Returns: a saved note... Example

curl -i -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"body" : "Pick up milk!"}' http://localhost:8080/api/notes

Returns:

{
 "id" : 2,
 "body" : "Pick up milk!"
}

Get a note using an API call:

GET /api/notes/{id}

Returns: the requested note.. Example:

curl -i -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X GET http://localhost:8080/api/notes/1

Returns:

{
 "id" : 1,
 "body" : "Ask Larry about the TPS reports."
}

I can get all notes using an API call:

GET /api/notes

Returns: A list of my notes

Example:

curl -i -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X GET http://localhost:8080/api/notes

Returns:

[
 {
 "id" : 2,
 "body" : "Pick up milk!"
 },
 {
 "id" : 1,
 "body" : "Ask Larry about the TPS reports."
 }
]

To search notes by their bodies, use the 'query' parameter in the GET request Example:

curl -i -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X GET http://localhost:8080/api/notes?query=milk

Returns a list of every note with the word 'milk' in it.

To delete an individual note use the endpoint /api/notes/delete with a parameter of 'id' signifying the note you wish to remove.

POST /api/notes/delete
ID int value of id to delete

Returns: the updated list of notes... Example

curl -i -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST  http://localhost:8080/api/notes/delete?id=1

Built With

• Maven - Dependency Management
• Spring Boot - Quick start Spring Framework web applications
• H2 Database Engine - the Java SQL database
• JSON.simple -JSON.simple is a simple Java toolkit for JSON

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details