📝 Project Description

This project involves fetching and processing data from the REST Countries API. The project has two main objectives:

1. Create a sorted list of countries by population density in descending order.
2. Identify the Asian country with the most neighboring countries from a different region.

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⚙️ Installation/Usage

Requirements

• Docker version 24.0.5, build ced0996

To run the application use Docker:

1. Pull the Docker image:

docker pull kristofs577/countries-image:latest

2. Once it's pulled, list the images using the docker images command, and save the Image ID:

IMAGE_ID=$(docker images --format "{{.ID}}" kristofs577/countries-image:latest | head -n 1)

3. Run the Docker container:

docker run -p 8080:8080 -e "SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE=prod" $IMAGE_ID

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API Documentation 🌍📚

All Controllers 🎮

To explore the API endpoints interactively, you can visit the Swagger UI after running the application.

Global Exception Handler 🚫

This handler manages global exceptions for the API.

Handling NullPointerException

Handles cases when data is not available.

Response:

• HTTP Status Code: 500
• Body: "Data not available."

Handling DataProcessingException

Handles data processing exceptions.

Response:

• HTTP Status Code: 500
• Body: "An error occurred during data processing."