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| CLI dog.ceo API tool |
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Written by : Aven Stewart
SUMMARY
This tool is meant as a basic competency demonstration for the Java programming language. Functionally, it serves as a CLI frontend for the dog.ceo API that allows users to request a random image of a dog breed or sub-breed.
This tool also serves mock data for three specific API calls in the event the API goes down. It has a built-in method to simulate an API-down event by returning fake 500 errors to API requests when the "simulate_downtime" property is set to TRUE in config.properties.
The three calls that this program will respond to with mock data during an API-down event are requests for a random image of a bulldog, french bulldog sub-breed, or boston bulldog sub-breed.
The program will also update the mock data for these three calls any time one of these calls are requested when the API is in a functional state.
As an additional feature, the "USER_AGENT" property can be used to change from the default user agent should the API blacklist it. Any standard user agent string is acceptable, but is not gauranteed to be accepted by the API.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The Jackson JSON processing library is used to parse all API responses. jackson-core, jackson-annotations, and jackson-databind are all included in the lib directory.
Thank you for reading!