Rest Diff

This project is designed to provide diff functionality of famous google-diff-match-patch library as a RESTful API. It's built top of Spring Boot and requires Java 7 installed on system.

Building and running

The following command produces fully executable jar file under /target folder.

./mvnw clean package

Running:

target/diff-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar

For deployment under Cloud services and installing as a system service please read the Spring Boot Deployment document.

Usage

Single diff

curl -X POST --header 'Content-Type: application/json' --header 'Accept: application/json' -d '{ \ 
   "context": { \ 
     "original": "Zo schrijft u zich in als woningzoekende: U schrijft zich in bij de organisatie die zorgt vor de verdelin van sociaale huurwoningen.", \ 
     "revised": "U schrijft zich in bij de organisatie die zorgt voor de verdeling van sociale huurwoningen." \ 
   }, \ 
   "options": { \ 
     "checkLines": true, \ 
     "cleanupSemantic": true, \ 
     "timeout": 0 \ 
   } \ 
 }' 'http://localhost:3000/diff'

[
  {
    "operation": "DELETE",
    "text": "Zo schrijft u zich in als woningzoekende: "
  },
  {
    "operation": "EQUAL",
    "text": "U schrijft zich in bij de organisatie die zorgt vo"
  },
  {
    "operation": "INSERT",
    "text": "o"
  },
  {
    "operation": "EQUAL",
    "text": "r de verdelin"
  },
  {
    "operation": "INSERT",
    "text": "g"
  },
  {
    "operation": "EQUAL",
    "text": " van socia"
  },
  {
    "operation": "DELETE",
    "text": "a"
  },
  {
    "operation": "EQUAL",
    "text": "le huurwoningen."
  }
]

It also supports single diff with html output and batch diff. This project comes with bundled Swagger UI, you can access documentation of operations from http://localhost:3000/swagger-ui.html.

LICENSE

The original Google Diff, Match and Patch Library is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. The full terms of that license are included here in the APACHE-LICENSE-2.0 file.

Diff, Match and Patch Library

Written by Neil Fraser Copyright (c) 2006 Google Inc. http://code.google.com/p/google-diff-match-patch/

This project is licensed under the MIT License which is included here in the LICENSE file.

rest-diff project

Copyright (c) 2018 Osman Üngür https://github.com/o/rest-diff