Description

API backend for the AniRec application.

Supported entities:

• Users
• Anime
• Genres
• Characters
• Favorites (Anime and Genre)
• Reviews
• Snippets
• Upvotes

Supported features:

• searching using keywords

Requirements

1. IDE (Eclipse or IntelliJ)
2. JDK 11+
3. MySql database (AniRec schema)
4. (Optional) Postman or Curl (CLI) for testing the API

Running

IDE

• Make sure you have the build plugins installed and configured (spring-boot-maven-plugin)

• Run in IDE

Terminal

• Build and run project with maven

./mvnw spring-boot:run

• for Windows, run the cmd script instead

./mvnw.cmd spring-boot:run

Usage

Once the server is up, it will be accessible at localhost:8080.

Testing

• Configure the connection to your local MySQL database (or a remote one if you have access)

• Start up the server

• After the server comes up, you can test individual endpoints through "Postman" or "curl".

• for example, running a GET request on localhost:8080/api/anime will retrieve a list of all anime in the database