This is a Java application for a blog website, where you can create, upload and delete different type of Post as well as you can add, update, remove comments to each post. Application can filter post, comments based on different parameter as well. Application used Role Based Authentication where Admin has all rights whereas user has few restricted operations.

• Java 8 or higher
• Maven
• MySQL Server
• Postman or similar as a client

• Spring Boot
• Spring MVC
• Spring Data JPA
• Spring Security
• JWT Authentication
• Hibernate
• MySQL
• JUnit5
• Mockito

1. Clone the repository to your local machine: git clone https://github.com/your-username/blog-application.git
2. Open the application.properties file located in src/main/resources and modify the following properties according to your MySQL configuration:

spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/db_name
spring.datasource.username=root
spring.datasource.password=root_password

Run the following command to build the project:

mvn clean install

Run the application using the following command:

java -jar target/blog-application-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar

• Used JWT Token authentication to make Serverless authentication
• Used Role Based authentication(User, Admin)
• CRUD operations using Rest APIs
• Handling Images while taking post entity
• Used Pagination for optimized search in the database
• Custom Error and Exception Handling
• Unit testing using JUnit5 and Mockito