Car resource api

Operations pertaining to Car resource

Sections

In this document:

• URIs and some REST EndPoints
• Overview
• API Rest EndPoints documentation
• Exceptions and error handlers
• Build
• Deploy

URIs and some REST EndPoints

Global URI: /api

- cars URI: /api/cars

EndPoints samples: To see all the REST EndPoints please check the swagger documentation

Cars

GET /cars
View a full list of available cars

Overview

This describes the resources that make up the cars REST API v1. If you have any problems or requests please contact pkakos1992@gmail.com.

Schema

All data is sent and received as JSON.

Summary Representations

Car

{  
   "id":1,
   "brand":"Tesla"
}

API Rest EndPoints documentation

The service use swagger to generate the documentation dynamically, please visit the next URI to have access to all the REST EndPoints: http://server:port/swagger-ui.html

Availale operations and responses

HTTP Method	Path	Status Code	Desc.
GET	/api/cars	200 (OK)	Fetch all Car resources
GET	/api/cars/{id}	200 (OK)	One Car resource is fetched
POST	/api/cars	201 (Created)	One Car resource is created
PUT	/api/cars/{id}	200 (OK)	Car resource is updated
DELETE	/api/cars/{id}	204 (No Content)	Car resource is deleted

Exceptions and error handlers

Every exception or errors returned by the API are encapsulated in the object ApiError:

HttpStatus status;
LocalDateTime timestamp; format: "dd-MM-yyyy hh:mm:ss"
String message;
String debugMessage;
List<ApiSubError> subErrors;

Every exception handler is defined in the class RestExceptionHandler that extends ResponseEntityExceptionHandler and use the method buildResponseEntity to build the ResponseEntity with the HTTP status code and the ApiError object.

 private ResponseEntity<Object> buildResponseEntity(ApiError apiError) {
        return new ResponseEntity<>(apiError, apiError.getStatus());
    }

Entity not found

HTTP return code 404

Bad request

HTTP return code 400

Security

TODO - the service is not using security at the moment. To be specified

Build

To build the project artifact locally, you can type the following on a terminal

$ mvn package

Deploy

The jar file generated is both executable and deployable into an external container.