How to use

• Purpose - To demonstrate use of a very basic MVC Spring project

Part 1 - Running the Program

1. Begin by cloning this project into your ~/dev directory.
2. Navigate to the newly cloned project.
3. Open the project in IntelliJ from the pom.xml
   • When prompted, select Open As Project
4. Run the MainApplication to begin exposing endpoints for a client to make requests to.

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Part 2 - Viewing All PersonRepository Contents

• From Postman, make a get request to localhost:8080/person/readAll.
  • An empty list should return

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Part 3 - Creating a Person

• From Postman, make a post request to localhost:8080/person/create using the JSON body displayed below.
  • to make a post request, ensure
    1. the request-type has been set to POST
    2. the request-body has been populated from the Body tab of the interface
    3. the request-data has been set to JSON (application/json)
• From Postman, make a get request to localhost:8080/person/readAll to verify that the person has been added.

{
  "id": 1,
  "firstName": "John",
  "lastName": "Smith",
  "age": 30
}

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Part 4 - Updating a Person

• From Postman, make a put request to localhost:8080/person/update using the JSON body displayed below.
  • to make a put request, ensure
    1. the request-type has been set to PUT
    2. the request-body has been populated from the Body tab of the interface
    3. the request-data has been set to JSON (application/json)
• From Postman, make a get request to localhost:8080/person/readAll to verify that the person has been modified.

{
  "id": 1,
  "firstName": "Johnson",
  "lastName": "Smithson",
  "age": 30
}

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Part 5 - Reading a Person by ID

• From Postman, make a get request to localhost:8080/person/read/1.
  • ensure that a single object is returned rather than a list.
  • ensure that the field-values of the returned Person object corresponds to the values set in Part 4.

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Part 6 - Deleting a Person

• From Postman, make a delete request to localhost:8080/person/delete/1
• From Postman, make a get request to localhost:8080/person/read/1.
  • ensure that the object has been deleted
• The following response is an example of what should be visible

{
    "timestamp": "2019-08-02T18:42:59.829+0000",
    "status": 500,
    "error": "Internal Server Error",
    "message": "No value present",
    "path": "/person/read/1"
}