Java Backend API

This project is for building an API server and doing CRUD actions on the MySQL database

• Project deployed on Heroku: https://java-springboot-1-demo.herokuapp.com/api/student/getAll
• API documentation(Open API) available on: https://java-springboot-1-demo.herokuapp.com/swagger-ui/index.html
• API documentation(Postman) available on: https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/19797749/Uyxoj4Vd

Main Dependencies

• Spring Boot
• Lombok
• JPA
• Maven

Key takeaways from this project

• Building CRUD functions in the JAVA API and query from the MySql database
• Use Project Lombok to reduce the code lines
• Use JPA and treat database tables as objects, making handling one-to-one, one-to-many relationships easier.
• JPA @Query annotation also allows programmers to use complex query strings
• Generate log file
• Use OpenAPI automatically generate API documentation
• Spring Aspect-oriented Programming, use @Before, @After, @AfterReturning, @Around
• Spring Boot Scheduler, use Cron expression. e.g. "0 0/1 * 1/1 * ?"
• Deploy the project on Heroku and switch to cloud base MySql database

Improvements in the future

• Adding auth functions
• Organize endpoints structures

Author

Simon Sun: sunmingyu.97@gmail.com