IMDb API

IMDb API is a backend system for storing and manipulate movie characters. The application is constructed in Spring using Hibernate. A PostgreSQL database is used to store information about characters, the movies they appear in, and the franchises they belong to. The REST API is used to interact and manipulate the data.

Participants

Hiba Benhaida, Thomas Gulli, Bjørnar Pedersen and Amalie Hunsbedt

Heroku page

http://pretendmdb.herokuapp.com/

For swagger: http://pretendmdb.herokuapp.com/index.html

Motivation

This project was made as an assignment during the Experis Academy Java Fullstack course.

Technologies

IntelliJ IDEA
Java
Spring
Maven
Hibernate
Rest API
PostgreSQL
Postman
Docker
Heroku

Code example

// Post method from the CharacterService class
@Service
public class CharacterService {

    @Autowired
    private CharacterRepository characterRepository;

    /* Post new character */
    public ResponseEntity<ActorCharacter> createNewCharacter(ActorCharacter character){
        ActorCharacter c = characterRepository.save(character);
        return ResponseEntity.ok().body(c);
    }
    


// REST controller endpoint from the CharacterController class
@RestController
@RequestMapping("api/v1/character")
public class CharacterController {

    @Autowired
    private CharacterService characterService;

    /* A method to create a new ActorCharacter object and add it to the database. */
    @PostMapping("/add")
    public ResponseEntity<ActorCharacter> addCharacter(@RequestBody ActorCharacter character){
        return characterService.createNewCharacter(character);
    }

Project tree

+---.idea
|   \---libraries
+---.mvn
|   \---wrapper
+---src
|   +---main
|   |   +---java
|   |   |   \---com
|   |   |       \---noroff
|   |   |           \---MovieCharactersAPI
|   |   |               +---controllers
|   |   |               +---exceptions
|   |   |               +---models
|   |   |               +---repositories
|   |   |               \---service
|   |   \---resources
|   |       +---static
|   |       \---templates
|   \---test
|       \---java
|           \---com
|               \---noroff
|                   \---MovieCharactersAPI
\---target
    +---classes
    |   \---com
    |       \---noroff
    |           \---MovieCharactersAPI
    |               +---controllers
    |               +---exceptions
    |               +---models
    |               +---repositories
    |               \---service
    +---generated-sources
    |   \---annotations
    +---generated-test-sources
    |   \---test-annotations
    \---test-classes
        \---com
            \---noroff
                \---MovieCharactersAPI

Credits

Thanks to Nicholas Lennox for great guidance!

TGulli / IMDBAPI