Warranty Tracker API service

Overview

The Warranty Tracker API service, built on Spring Boot, is designed to streamline warranty management for your products, providing a reliable and efficient platform for tracking warranty details effortlessly.

Objectives

• Familiarization with Spring Boot: Gain proficiency in utilizing the Spring Boot framework for building robust and scalable APIs.
• Building OAuth2 Resource Server: Learn the implementation of OAuth2 resource server functionality to enhance security and access control.
• Exploration of Identity as a Service (IDaaS) Solutions: Explore services like AWS Cognito to understand their role in providing secure identity management solutions.

Features

The API service allows users to:

• Document warranties for their products, including key details like expected expiry dates and associated company information for technical support.
• Email reminders for products with warranties that are nearing expiration

Technologies Utilized

• Spring Boot: Leveraged for efficient API development.
• Spring Security & OAuth2: Ensures robust security measures for access control.
• Lombok: Streamlines Java code with annotations, reducing boilerplate code.
• Maven: Used for project management and build automation.
• MapStruct: Facilitates mapping between Java bean types.
• AWS Java SDK for Amazon DynamoDB: Employed for seamless integration with Amazon DynamoDB.

Installation and Setup Instructions

AWS Access and Secret keys are required and must be set as an environment variable to run this app

Example on setting environment variable on macOS:

export aws_accesskey=<KEY GOES HERE>
export aws_secretkey=<KEY GOES HERE>

To run the service, navigate to the root of the project and execute the command

mvn spring-boot:run

Endpoints

	localhost	Render
Open API	http://localhost:8080/swagger-ui/index.html	https://warranty-tracker-api.onrender.com/swagger-ui/index.html
Actuator	http://localhost:8080/actuator	https://warranty-tracker-api.onrender.com/actuator

Note that endpoints are secured by Spring Security and require a valid JWT access token to be called. Only the /actuator and /swagger-ui/** endpoints are not secured.

Service on Render may spin down due to inactivity, resulting in delays of 50 seconds or more for requests.

Reflection

This project bears resemblance to the Subtracker project I previously worked on. Here, I've integrated AWS Cognito, an Identity as a Service solution offered by AWS. The primary objective was to acquaint myself with AWS services, which play a crucial role in my preparation for the AWS certification.