Spring Social Media Blog API

Project Description

This project is a REST API backend for a hypothetical social media app, where we manage our users’ accounts as well as any messages that they submit to the application.

Technologies Used

• Java
• Spring Framework
• Spring MVC
• Spring Data JPA

Features

• Process new user registrations - POST /register
• Process user logins - POST /login
• Process the creation of new messages - POST /messages
• Retrieve all messages - GET /messages
• Retrieve a message by its ID - GET /messages/{message_id}
• Delete a message identified by its message ID - DELETE /messages/{message_id}
• Update a message text identified by a message ID - PATCH /messages/{message_id}
• Retrieve all messages written by a particular user - GET /accounts/{account_id}/messages

Usage

# download project
git clone https://github.com/njohnson-oss/Spring-Social-Media-Blog-API

# validate, compile, test, and package the project
cd Spring-Social-Media-Blog-API
mvn package

# start the web API
java -jar ./target/Challenges-1.1.jar