Text Based Voting Application (RESTful Services)

This is a repository containing a text based voting application which demostrates the use of Spring based MVC framework and a number of 3rd party integrations.

Requirements: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PO10ZMc29OqqDWIVy28Qq3oXJwsqN9PCtSn3U-LQPO0/pub

Core Functionality:

Moderator - Create, Update, View, Delete.
Poll - Create, Update, Vote, View a Poll with Voting Results, View a Poll without Voting Results, View all Polls for a Moderator, Delete.

Features:

API call validation (returns proper status codes).
Basic Authentication (Spring HTTP Authentication Package).
Scheduler (Spring Scheduler Package, checks for expired polls every 5 minutes).
Remote Messaging (Message broker (Kafka Producer) sends emails with set (topic, message) for expired polls).
Peristent Data (MongoLab).
Amazon Cloud Hosting (EC2)

Technology Stack:

Spring MVC
Gradle (Build Automation/Packaging)
Additional Spring Libraries (Authentication, HTTP Validation, Scheduler)
MongoLab
Kafka
Amazon Web Services (EC2)

Files:

resources/application.properties: connection file to hosted MongoLab. (test123:test123/mongolab) -> (username:password/DB name)

Sample Input for testing (Postman recommended):

Postman configuration: raw -> JSON format; Header = "Content-Type", Value = "application/json"
Endpoint (local): http://localhost:8080/api/v1/moderators/
Endpoint (hosted): http://ec2-54-153-90-122.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:8080/api/v1/moderators/
Moderator { "name": "John Smith", "email": "[email protected]", "password": "secret" }
Endpoint (local): http://localhost:8080/api/v1/moderators/YYYYYY/polls
Endpoint (hosted): http://ec2-54-153-90-122.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:8080/api/v1/moderators/XXXXXX/polls
Poll { "question": "What type of smartphone do you have?", "started_at": "2015-02-23T13:00:00.000Z", "expired_at" : "2015-02-24T13:00:00.000Z", "choice": [ "Android", "iPhone" ] }

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