springboot-rest-fileapp

Overview:

This project show cases REST API using Spring Boot and In-Memory Database.

This RESTFul API spring-boot application provides the following APIs:

• API to upload a file with a few meta-data fields. Persist meta-data in persistence store (In memory DB and store the content on a file system).
• API to get file meta-data.
• API to download content stream.
• API to search for file IDs with a search criterion.
• A scheduler to poll for new files uploaded in the last hour and send an email.

Setup:

This is a self contained project, follow the below steps to setup the project and test

1. Edit src/main/resources/application.properties accordingly.
2. Install and use Postman to test API end-points.

After setup, API end-points can be found at
http://localhost:8080/swagger-ui.html#!/file-controller/

Assumptions/Limitations:

• Since we are storing the files in local file system, file names have to be unique.
• Only one file can be uploaded at a time.
• Search criterion is limited (will be expanded in future).