Firstbase Coding Challenge

This project is a Spring Boot application which implements the requirements set forth in the Firstbase Coding Challenge.

Building/Testing the Project

After downloading the repository execute the following command to build the project and run unit tests:

gradle clean test

Running the Project and Accessing Swagger User Interface

Run the application by executing the following command:

gradle clean bootRun

This will start the Spring Boot application which includes a Swagger UI wrapper that allows the APIs to be manipulated manually. In order to access the Swagger UI, access the following URL:

http://localhost:8080/firstbase/swagger-ui/index.html

Note that all of the REST APIs are relative to the context firstbase.

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In addition to the given requirements, there is an additional REST API that interacts with the remote "random user" API, exposing a downsampled version of the remote JSON responses. The API may be used to generate any number of random users. There is also an additional method bootstrapEmployees which pulls some number of random users from the remote service and turns them into Employee entities stored in the database. This is handy for testing the search functions interactively.