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Week 2

Milestones​

  • Documentation of the setup
  • Building a basic API service & implementing a dummy client call to API server

Milestone 1 : Documentation of the SunbirdRC Core backend setup locally​

The link to the documentation can be found here

Milestone 2 : Building a basic API service & implementing a dummy client call to the server​

The purpose of this milestone was to get familiar with writing and calling external APIs in java spring-boot, so that once we are able to locate the components where we need to make API calls, it won't take much time.

Screenshots​

A basic api-service

    public void apiHelper(){
        String url="https://catfact.ninja/fact";

        WebClient.Builder builder=WebClient.builder();

        String catfact=builder.build().get().uri(url).retrieve().bodyToMono(String.class).block();

        System.out.println("---------------------------");
        System.out.println(catfact);
        System.out.println("---------------------------");
    }

Now when I try to hit the endpoint http://localhost:8081/api/v1/Teacher (create an entity endpoint)

Hitting endpoint

The api-service built successfully runs

api-service

Learnings​

  • Writing proper documentation
  • How java spring-boot application works?
  • Setting up a maven project
  • How API calls are made in java spring-boot application?