Spring Boot Mini Evaluation - 📮 Simple Feedback API

A minimal Spring Boot 3.x REST API for submitting and viewing user feedback. Includes a clean HTML + JS frontend and integrates with a PostgreSQL database.

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🚀 Tech Stack

• Java 17+
• Spring Boot 3.x
• Spring Data JPA
• PostgreSQL
• JUnit + Mockito
• HTML, CSS, JS (frontend)(Optional)
• Insomnia / cURL for testing

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📦 Features

• ✅ Submit feedback (with validation)
• ✅ View all feedback entries
• ✅ Store feedback in PostgreSQL
• ✅ (Optional) HTML + JS page to view and submit feedback
• ✅ Fully tested service layer

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📌 Prerequisites:

• Java 17+
• PostgreSQL running locally on port 5432
• A database named feedbackform

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🛠️ API Endpoints

Method	Endpoint	Description
POST	/feedback	Submit new feedback
GET	/feedback	Retrieve all feedback

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🔧 SETUP

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/your-username/your-repo-name.git
cd your-repo-name

2. Set up PostgreSQL

Create a database named feedbackform Update application.properties:

spring.datasource.url=jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/feedbackform
spring.datasource.username=your_db_username
spring.datasource.password=your_db_password

3. Start The Server

mvn spring-boot:run

4. Access frontend

You can open it via:
http://localhost:8080/index.html

5. Sample API Requests

➕ Submit Feedback

curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/feedback \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
  "name": "Priyal",
  "email": "priyal@example.com",
  "message": "This is amazing feedback!"
}'

📄 Get All Feedback curl http://localhost:8080/feedback

6. WEbpage

you can also fill the details in feedback form to submit

7. Run the maven test

mvn test