The Person Management System API is a powerful Spring Boot application that allows seamless management of individuals through a comprehensive set of features, including listing, adding, and updating people in a database. It even intelligently retrieves missing individuals from an external source when necessary, ensuring accurate and efficient data management.

• Requirements
• Used Technologies
• Features
• Getting Started
• License
• Explore Rest API

• Java 8 or higher
• PostgreSQL database
• Docker (optional, for containerization of the project)

• Java 8+
• Spring Boot
• Spring Data JPA
• PostgreSQL
• Caching (In Memory)
• Basic Authentication
• Swagger for API Documentation
• Flyway for Database Migrations
• Docker for Containerization
• Spring Actuator for Monitoring
• Asynchronous Processing (Spring Async)
• Validation (Hibernate Validator)
• External API Integration
• Git for Version Control
• Logging with slf4j

• List, add, and update people in the database
• Retrieve missing persons from an external API source
• Caching mechanism improves performance
• Secure API access via basic authentication
• Interactive API documentation with Swagger
• Version-controlled database migrations with Flyway
• Easy containerization with Docker
• Health monitoring with Actuator
• Database operations with Data JPA
• Ensure data integrity with validation
• Improve performance with asynchronous processing
• Using logger for both functionality and feature tracking

Follow these steps to run the project on your local machine.

1. Docker. First, you need to install docker

• Download Docker Here. Hint: Enable Hyper-V feature on Windows and restart.
• Then open powershell and check:

docker version

docker -v

or docker compose version

docker-compose -v

2. Create PostgreSQL database

create database todo_db

3. Change postgreSQL username and password as per your installation

• open src/main/resources/application.properties
• change spring.datasource.username and spring.datasource.password as per your postgreSQL installation

4. Spring Boot app

• Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/Erenalp06/person-management-system-api.git

• Build the maven project:

mvn clean install

• Running the containers:

This command will build the docker containers and start them.

docker-compose up

Appendix A.

All commands should be run from project root (where docker-compose.yml locates)

• If you have to want to see running containers. Checklist docker containers

docker container list -a

or

docker-compose ps

The app will start running at http:localhost:9643

5. Swagger Documentation

• Explore the interactive Swagger documentation by simply visiting the following URL in your web browser:

http://localhost:9643/swagger-ui.html 

Contributions are welcome! For significant changes, please open an issue to discuss first.

1. Fork this repository.
2. Create a new branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature).
3. Make changes and commit them (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature').
4. Push to your branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature).
5. Open a Pull Request.

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.
Developer: Erenalp TEKŞEN
Project Link: https://github.com/Erenalp06/person-management-system-api

The app defines following CRUP APIs.