Animal API - REST API with Java Spring Boot

This is a REST API for animal data management, built with Java Spring Boot. The API provides CRUD operations for animal data along with advanced features like filtering, sorting, and pagination.

Technologies

• Java 17
• Spring Boot 3.5.6
• Spring Web - REST API endpoints
• Spring JDBC - Database connections
• MariaDB - Production database
• Jakarta Validation - Input validation
• Swagger - API documentation
• Docker - Containerization solution
• Maven - Dependency management

Assignment completion

Step 1 & 2: Study & implement API

• Technology: Java Spring Boot + MariaDB
• CRUD Operations: All implemented (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE)

Step 3: Advanced features

• Filtering - Filter by animal id OR name, filter animals and species by species id, location name OR species id + location name
• Sorting - Sort animals and species by alphabetical order
• Pagination - Result pagination with page and size parameters and sort by name in ascending or descending order (eg. page=1&size=5&sort=animal_name, asc)
• Validation - Input validation with Jakarta Validation

Step 4: Documentation

• API Documentation - Swagger

Step 5: Deployment

• Production Deployment - Docker + Rocky Linux VM (Metropolia E-cloud VM)

API Testing

• Use Swagger UI for testing: http://10.120.32.76:8080/swagger-ui.html