This service helps you to make you URLs shorter.
This project uses next technologies:
- Spring Boot;
- Spring JPA;
- Maven;
- h2 database (used in memory and TCP mode);
- simple web form based on HTML/CSS/Bootstrap/AJAX;
Yo`re enter link in Full URL field and clicking on the button. That all. Server response in shortened version of
you link, like this:
http://localhost:8080/{randomchar}
Take this url and type it in new tab of your browser. Notice, that the service works while app is running. After rebooting database cleans and all information will be lost.
You can change port changes string via application starts application.LOCALHOST_URL=http://localhost:{your port}/
in file application.properties.
Algorithm is based on id of url in database. For example, you enter :
"https://www.baeldung.com/".
ID will be 1. Then this id divides on number 66 (number of possible chars) and in chain of possible char returns
index of remainder. Possible chars:
"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789"
Clone this project. Then run application in IDE or build it with Maven (stage package) and run
with the following command :
java -jar url-shortener-1.0.jar
Open browser and enter in address bar: http://localhost:8080/.