Spring Boot REST API (MongoDB)

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Technologies used :

• Spring Boot 2.5.5
• Java 17
• Docker
• MongoDB & Mongo Express

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Sample JSON to POST data :

  {
      "firstName": "Ja",
      "lastName": "Champion",
      "email": "david@email.com",
      "gender": "MALE",
      "address": {
          "country": "England",
          "city": "London",
          "postCode": "NE7"
      },
      "favouriteSubjects": [
          "Computer Science"
      ],
      "totalSpentInBooks": 10,
      "created": "2021-10-09T21:41:27.024"
  }

Docker yaml file :

version: "3.8"
services:
  mongodb:
    image: mongo
    container_name: mongodb
    ports:
      - 27017:27017
    volumes:
      - data:/data
    environment:
      - MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_USERNAME=rootuser
      - MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_PASSWORD=rootpass
  mongo-express:
    image: mongo-express
    container_name: mongo-express
    restart: always
    ports:
      - 8081:8081
    environment:
      - ME_CONFIG_MONGODB_ADMINUSERNAME=rootuser
      - ME_CONFIG_MONGODB_ADMINPASSWORD=rootpass
      - ME_CONFIG_MONGODB_SERVER=mongodb
volumes:
  data: {}

networks:
  default:
    name: mongodb_network

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Future improvements :

• use records
• implement POST, PUT, etc
• try out GraphQL