Java RESTEasy Hibernate

This is a simple note taking application called Knook. Also, this project is a basic example of building REST API with Java 7, RESTEasy, Hibernate and other technologies.

Technologies

• Java 7
• RESTEasy (JAX-RS)
• Hibernate (JPA)
• Maven (build)
• Glassfish (deployment)
• MySQL (data storage)

Features

Knook provides full CRUD operations for user and note management.

Getting Started

To get you started you need to install dependencies, clone the repository, deploy and run the application with your favorite IDE.

Prerequisites

You need to have a git client to clone the repository. You can get it from http://git-scm.com/.

Also you must have Java 7, Maven to build the application, Glassfish to deploy and run it and MySQL database server to store the data. In addition, it is expected that you will use IDE to build and deploy Knook.

Installation

1. Install MySQL server

   sudo apt-get install mysql-server
   

2. Install Java JRE and JDK

   sudo apt-get install default-jre
   sudo apt-get install default-jdk
   

3. Clone the java-resteasy-hibernate repository using git:

   git clone https://github.com/romandunets/java-resteasy-hibernate.git
   

4. Use your favorite IDE to deploy and run the application. Particularly, for this project were used Netbeans 8.1.

API Endpoints

There are two main services, users, groups and notes

The routes for these are

• /users
• /users/{id}/groups
• /users/{id}/groups/{id}/notes

List users

You can list all users making a GET request to /users.json

Get user

You can get one user making a GET request to /users/{id}.json

Create user

You can create an new user making a POST request to /users.json with the following parameters

{ "email": "[email protected]", "password": "password" }

Update user

You can update an existing user making a PUT request to /users/{id}.json with the following parameters

{ "email": "[email protected]", "password": "password" }

Delete user

You can delete an existing user making a DELETE request to /users/{id}.json

List groups

You can list all groups owned by user, making a GET request to /users/{id}/groups.json

Get group

You can get one group for owned by user, making a GET request to /users/{id}/groups/{id}.json

Create group

You can create an new group owned by user, making a POST request to /users/{id}/groups/{id}.json with the following parameters

{ "name": "Some group", "description": "Some description..." }

Update group

You can update an existing group owned by user, making a PUT request to /users/{id}/groups/{id}.json with the following parameters

{ "name": "Some group", "description": "Some description..." }

Delete group

You can delete an existing group owned by user, making a DELETE request to /users/{id}/groups/{id}.json

List notes

You can list all notes for a specific group owned by user, making a GET request to /users/{id}/groups/{id}/notes.json

Get note

You can get one note for a specific group owned by user, making a GET request to /users/{id}/groups/{id}/notes/{id}.json

Create note

You can create an new note for a specific group owned by user, making a POST request to /users/{id}/groups/{id}/notes.json with the following parameters

{ "title": "First note", "content": "Some note..." }

Update note

You can update an existing note for a specific group owned by user, making a PUT request to /users/{id}/groups/{id}/notes/{id}.json with the following parameters

{ "title": "Another note", "content": "Another note..." }

Delete note

You can delete an existing note for a specific group owned by user, making a DELETE request to /users/{id}/groups/{id}/notes/{id}.json

List attachments

You can list all attachments for a specific note making a GET request to /attachments/{note_id}.json

Further Development

• Attachments for notes
• Relationships
• Authentication
• Icons for groups
• Icons for notes
• Filters for resources
• Entities validation
• Unit Tests