Product Application

Overview

This Spring Boot application provides a RESTful API for managing products. It interacts with the Fake Store API to fetch product details and add new products. The application uses MySQL for local data storage and RestTemplate for external API communication.

Documentation

Features

• Fetch products by category from the Fake Store API.
• Add new products to the Fake Store API and save them to a local database.

Endpoints

1. Fetch Products by Category

• URL: /api/products/category/{category}
• Method: GET
• Description: Fetches a list of products by category from the Fake Store API.
• URL Example: http://localhost:8888/api/products/category/jewelery
• Path Variable:
  • category (string): The category to filter products by.
• Response:
  • 200 OK: Returns a list of products in JSON format.
  • 404 Not Found: If no products are found for the specified category.

Response Example: json [ { "id": 5, "title": "Product 1", "price": 19.99, "description": "Description of product 1", "category": "jewelery", "image": "https://example.com/image1.jpg" }, { "id": 6, "title": "Product 2", "price": 29.99, "description": "Description of product 2", "category": "jewelery", "image": "https://example.com/image2.jpg" } ]

Add a New Product

URL: /api/products/add Method: POST Description: Adds a new product to the Fake Store API and saves it to the local database. Request Body: title (string): The title of the product. price (number): The price of the product. description (string): The description of the product. category (string): The category of the product. image (string): The URL of the product image. Request Body Example: json

{ "title": "New Product", "price": 25.99, "description": "This is a description of the new product", "category": "electronics", "image": "https://example.com/image.jpg" } Response: 200 OK: Returns the details of the newly created product in JSON format. 400 Bad Request: If the request body is invalid. Response Example:

json

{ "id": 31, "title": "New Product", "price": 25.99, "description": "This is a description of the new product", "category": "electronics", "image": "https://example.com/image.jpg" } Configuration application.properties properties

spring.application.name=Product Application server.port=8888

MySQL properties

spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/fakestore spring.datasource.username=root spring.datasource.password=root spring.datasource.driver-class-name=com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver

JPA properties

spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=update spring.jpa.show-sql=true spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL8Dialect

Timeouts for RestTemplate (in milliseconds)

resttemplate.connection.timeout=5000 resttemplate.read.timeout=5000

Enable HTTP client logging for debugging purposes

logging.level.org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate=DEBUG

External API URL

external.api.url=https://fakestoreapi.com Running the Application Clone the Repository sh Git Clone Navigate to the Project Directory

sh cd product-application Build and Run the Application

sh ./mvnw spring-boot:run Access the API The application will be available atLocalHost