Java Spring project "Social networking site"

Friend-service

Description

This service is responsible for managing friendships. Within this service, friendships are created between users and a list of possible friends for each user. The service provides all the functionality related to the friends section of our social network.

Service Technologies

• Java version 11
• Spring Framework
• Flyway
• Lombok
• Mapstruct
• Spring Data JPA
• PostgreSQL
• Spring Security
• Spring Cloud OpenFeign
• Spring Cloud Netflix Eureka
• JWT(JsonWebToken)
• Nexus repository
• Kafka
• Swagger OpenApi
• JUnit

Technical description

How to run the application on your device:

1. (Pre-configuring the PostgreSQL database) Specify in the application.yaml file, or in the environment variables in your IDE, the required application configuration parameters to run:
   • SERVER_PORT (The port of your application. Specify it manually if you are not going to use the default port: 8086)
   • DB_PASSWORD (Password for the database)
   • DB_URL (The address of the database your application connects to. You should specify it manually if you are not going to use default postgresql url: jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/friend_service)
   • KAFKA_HOST(The address of the Kafka broker. The default host is localhost:9092. Replace it if you are not going to use the default)
   • SECRET_KEY (Your application's secret key. This is needed to protect your service which uses JWT technology)
   • EUREKA_URI (Address of your Eureka server. Specify it if you are not going to use the default address: http://localhost:8081/eureka )
2. Run the file FriendApp.java.

If you want to see the full functionality of the service go to the controllers folder inside the project, where each method will have a brief description of its functionality.