The Showroom REST API creates brands and adds products to those brands.

Isaiah Jenkins

• Java (Server-side language)
• Hibernate (ORM)
• MySQL (Server)
• MySQL Workbench (visual database design tool for MySQL database)
• Jersey (JAX-RS)
• Tomcat (Web server)
• Postman (REST Client)
• Maven (Dependency Injection)
• Eclispe (IDE, Jave EE version 2020-12)

1. Eclispe (IDE, Java EE version 2020-12)
2. MySQL Community Server
3. MySQL Workbench
4. Postman

Note: Make sure to start your MySQL server on your computer.

Schema - showroom

Tables - brands, products

In the products table, set up a foreign key for brand id referenced to the brands table in showroom schema. Each product is tagged to a brand with the brand's id.

1. Open Eclipse.
2. Right-click on "restapi" project folder.
3. Click Run As -> Run on Server.
4. Make sure the web server is the latest Tomcat for v9.x.x.
5. Hit Finish.

Important: Make sure the Content-type header is set to application/json for the requests except for DELETE operation.

Ex:

POST http://localhost:8080/restapp/showroom/brands 

In BODY, send raw JSON object like below

{
    "brandName": "my brand"
}

Ex: 

GET http://localhost:8080/restapp/showroom/brands

No body

Ex: 

GET http://localhost:8080/restapp/showroom/brands/4

No body

Ex: 

GET http://localhost:8080/restapp/showroom/brands/4/products

No body

Ex: 

GET http://localhost:8080/restapp/showroom/brands/4/products?category=clothing

No body

Ex: 

PUT http://localhost:8080/restapp/showroom/brands/16

In BODY, send raw JSON object like below

{
    "brandId": 16,
    "brandName": "brand18"
}

Ex: 

DELETE http://localhost:8080/restapp/showroom/brands/16

No body