Mini Twitter Rest Api

This application serves as a backend server exposing several apis for tweets management.

Meta info

Application showcases knowledge of:

• Java programming language
• Spring framework
  • Application setup and initialization
  • Annotation utilization
    • Controller and Service definition
    • Exposed requests mapping
      • CRUD (POST, GET)
      • Receiving objects as body and path variable
    • Dependency injection (on constructor)
    • Cross origin handling for environments
    • Integration tests
    • Http security configuration (interceptor) set with authentication provider and allowing only specific endpoint api
• General
  • REST calls
    • GET with path variable
    • POST with body
  • Having git commit messages readable
• Concepts
  • Separation of concerns
  • "N-tier architecture"
    • Controllers expose api endpoints
    • Business logic is found inside services
    • Data layer is accessed from repositories
• Operations
  • Setting environment variables (for production and development differentiation)
  • Deploying application (on Heroku)

Requirements

1. Java - 1.8
2. Maven - 3.x.x

Development server