deepakps22 / movies-search

A Spring Boot application that allows to add and search movie names

movies-search

A Spring Boot application that allows to add and search movie names

Running Application

• Download the zip or clone the Git repository.
• Unzip the zip file (if you have downloaded one)
• Open Command Prompt and Change directory (cd) to folder containing pom.xml
• Open Eclipse
  • File -> Import -> Existing Maven Project -> Navigate to the folder where you unzipped the zip
  • Select the right project
• Choose the Spring Boot Application file (search for @SpringBootApplication)
• Right Click on the file and Run as Java Application

Here are some endpoints you can call:

Get information about movies

GET http://localhost:8080/movies/

RESPONSE: 
{
    "movieList": [
        {
            "movie": "the exorcist"
        },
        {
            "movie": "the dark knight"
        }
    ]
}

Create a movie resource

POST http://localhost:8080/movies/
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json

REQUEST:
{
"movie" : "Life is beautiful"
}

RESPONSE: HTTP 201 (Created)

Search movies that begin with specific prefix

POST http://localhost:8080/movies/search/the/2


Response:

[
    "the dark knight",
    "the exorcist"
]