Spring Boot Blog API

Blog API is a RESTful web service developed using Spring Boot, allowing users to interact with a Blog Engine that includes posts. The API does not include authentication and can handle titles and bodies for each post.

This is backend behaves the same as the Ruby on Rails Blog Api, just wanted to create the same on a different technology stack.

Technologies Used

• Java
• Spring Boot
• PostgreSQL
• Maven
• JUnit
• Mockito

Setup Instructions

Prerequisites

• Java 8 or higher
• PostgreSQL
• Maven

Steps

1. Clone the Repository

   git clone https://github.com/alexertech/blog_api_spring.git
   cd blog_api_spring

2. Set Up the Database

   • Install PostgreSQL if not already installed.
   • Create a new database named blog_api_spring.
   • Update the application.properties file with your PostgreSQL username and password.

   spring.datasource.username=<your-username>
   spring.datasource.password=<your-password>

3. Build and Run the Application

   ./mvnw clean install
   ./mvnw spring-boot:run

API Usage

Get All Posts

curl -X GET http://localhost:8080/posts

Get Post by ID

curl -X GET http://localhost:8080/posts/{postId}

Create a New Post

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"title": "Post Title", "body": "Post Body"}' http://localhost:8080/posts

Update a Post

curl -X PUT -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"title": "Updated Title", "body": "Updated Body"}' http://localhost:8080/posts/{postId}

Delete a Post

curl -X DELETE http://localhost:8080/posts/{postId}

Testing

To run the tests, execute the following command in the project directory.

./mvnw test