Application To Upload/Download video To/From A Cloud Service

This project is my solution to Jules White's first assignement on coursera.

Running the Application

To run the application:

Right-click on the Application class in the org.magnum.dataup package, Run As->Java Application

To stop the application:

Open the Eclipse Debug Perspective (Window->Open Perspective->Debug), right-click on the application in the "Debug" view (if it isn't open, Window->Show View->Debug) and select Terminate

Overview

A popular use of cloud services is to manage media that is uploaded from mobile devices. This assignment will create a very basic application for uploading video to a cloud service and managing the video's metadata. Once you are able to build this basic type of infrastructure, you will have the core knowledge needed to create much more sophisticated cloud services.

Instructions

This assignment tests your ability to create a web application that allows clients to upload videos to a server. The server allows clients to first upload a video's metadata (e.g., duration, etc.) and then to upload the actual binary data for the video. The server should support uploading video binary data with a multipart request.

The test that is used to grade your implementation is AutoGradingTest in the org.magnum.dataup package in src/test/java. You should use the source code in the AutoGradingTest as the ground truth for what the expected behavior of your solution is. Your app should pass this test without any errors. The test methods are annotated with @Rubric and specify the number of points associated with each test, the purpose of the test, and the videos relevant to the test.

The HTTP API that you must implement so that this test will pass is as follows:

GET /video

• Returns the list of videos that have been added to the server as JSON. The list of videos does not have to be persisted across restarts of the server. The list of Video objects should be able to be unmarshalled by the client into a Collection
• The return content-type should be application/json, which will be the default if you use @ResponseBody

POST /video

• The video metadata is provided as an application/json request body. The JSON should generate a valid instance of the Video class when deserialized by Spring's default Jackson library.
• Returns the JSON representation of the Video object that was stored along with any updates to that object made by the server.
• The server should generate a unique identifier for the Video object and assign it to the Video by calling its setId(...) method.
• No video should have ID = 0. All IDs should be > 0.
• The returned Video JSON should include this server-generated identifier so that the client can refer to it when uploading the binary mpeg video content for the Video.
• The server should also generate a "data url" for the Video. The "data url" is the url of the binary data for a Video (e.g., the raw mpeg data). The URL should be the full URL for the video and not just the path (e.g., http://localhost:8080/video/1/data would be a valid data url). See the Hints section for some ideas on how to generate this URL.

POST /video/{id}/data

• The binary mpeg data for the video should be provided in a multipart request as a part with the key "data". The id in the path should be replaced with the unique identifier generated by the server for the Video. A client MUST create a Video first by sending a POST to /video and getting the identifier for the newly created Video object before sending a POST to /video/{id}/data.
• The endpoint should return a VideoStatus object with state=VideoState.READY if the request succeeds and the appropriate HTTP error status otherwise. VideoState.PROCESSING is not used in this assignment but is present in VideoState.
• Rather than a PUT request, a POST is used because, by default, Spring does not support a PUT with multipart data due to design decisions in the Commons File Upload library: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FILEUPLOAD-197

GET /video/{id}/data

• Returns the binary mpeg data (if any) for the video with the given identifier. If no mpeg data has been uploaded for the specified video, then the server should return a 404 status code.

The AutoGradingTest should be used as the ultimate ground truth for what should be implemented in the assignment. If there are any details in the description above that conflict with the AutoGradingTest, use the details in the AutoGradingTest as the correct behavior and report the discrepancy on the course forums. Further, you should look at the AutoGradingTest to ensure that you understand all of the requirements. It is perfectly OK to post on the forums and ask what a specific section of the AutoGradingTest does. Do not, however, post any code from your solution or potential solution.

There is a VideoSvcApi interface that is annotated with Retrofit annotations in order to communicate with the video service that you will be creating. Your solution controller(s) should not directly implement this interface in a "Java sense" (e.g., you should not have YourSolution implements VideoSvcApi). Your solution should support the HTTP API that is described by this interface, in the text above, and in the AutoGradingTest. In some cases it may be possible to have the Controller and the client implement the interface, but it is not in this

Again -- the ultimate ground truth of how the assignment will be graded, is contained in AutoGradingTest, which shows the specific tests that will be run to grade your solution. You must implement everything that is required to make all of the tests in this class pass. If a test case is not mentioned in this README file, you are still responsible for it and will be graded on whether or not it passes. Make sure and read the AutoGradingTest code and look at each test!

You should not modify any of the code in Video, VideoStatus, VideoSvcApi, AutoGrading, or AutoGradingTest.

Testing Your Implementation

To test your solution, first run the application as described above. Once your application is running, you can right-click on the AutoGradingTest->Run As->JUnit Test to launch the test. Eclipse will report which tests pass or fail.

To get an estimated score for your solution, right-click on AutoGrading (not AutoGradingTest) and Run As->Java Application. The AutoGrading application will run AutoGradingTest and then print a summary of the test results and your score to the Eclipse Console (Window->Show View->Console). The AutoGrading application will also create a submission package that you will submit as the solution to the assignment in Coursera.