README.md

Cinema Room REST Service

About

"A simple Spring REST service that will help you manage a small movie theater. It will handle HTTP requests in controllers, create services, and respond with JSON objects. Make good use of Spring and write a REST service that can show the available seats, sell and refund tickets, and display the statistics of your venue." [1]

Install and Run

• Install Maven
  • Download and install: https://maven.apache.org/install.html
• mvn exec:java will start the program.

User Interaction

The REST framework is used for interacting with the application.

• View available seats to purchase
  • GET http://localhost:8080/seats
• View statistics about purchased and available seats.
  • GET http://localhost:8080/stats?password=super_secret
• Purchase a ticket
  • POST http://localhost:28852/purchase
  • Populate the body of the request with JSON for the row and column of the seat.
  • The purchased ticket details will be returned. The token is unique and used to refund a ticket.

Body of POST request

{
    "row": 1,
    "column": 1
}

Response for POST request

{
    "token": "706f1ea5-d80d-4ea4-ae13-9bb388e2e170",
    "ticket": {
        "row": 1,
        "column": 1,
        "price": 10
    }
}

• Return a ticket.
  • POST http://localhost:8080/return
  • Populate the body with the JSON of the ticket token.

Body of POST request

{
    "token": "7680083c-c8db-4647-87e8-9072e2d4811d"
}

References

1. Cinema Room Rest Service with Java Hyperskill project