Run the API

type the following in the root directory of the application and Sptring Boot will startup. After that you can interact with the API in another terminal.

$ mvn spring-boot:run

adds a new customer

$ curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{
    "firstName": "Kristoffer",
    "lastName": "Solberg"
}'  http://localhost:8080/customers 

retrieves all customers

$ curl http://localhost:8080/customers

updates customer with id 1

$ curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X PUT -d '{
    "id": 1,
    "firstName": "Kristoffer",
    "lastName": "Rakstad"
}'  http://localhost:8080/customers/1

deletes customer with id 1

$ curl -X DELETE http://localhost:8080/customers/1