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This server is based on Spring Boot which allows users to create easy stand-alone, production-grade Spring based Applications. This server is using the following methods depending on which endpoint you are sending your request.

• GET
• POST
• DELETE

All of the features that is explained below are also implemented in the front-end of the server where you can see, create and delete posts.

Main Endpoint

The main endpoint of this server is http://localhost:8080/ or http://localhost:8080/index.html. When a client sends a GET request to these endpoint the response will be the html code of the main page which can be opened in the browser. But if client sends a POST or any other http method to this endpoint the server will return a 405 Method Not Allowed response in json format.

{  
 "timestamp": "2021-12-20T00:01:39.625+00:00",  
 "status": 405,  
 "error": "Method Not Allowed",  
 "trace": "org.springframework.web.HttpRequestMethodNotSupportedException: Request method 'POST' not supported....",  
 "message": "Request method 'POST' not supported",  
 "path": "/"  
}

Blog Endpoint

The blog endpoint of this server is at http://localhost:8080/blog and this endpoint supports the GET, POST and DELETE methods. The example and explanation of each method is described below.

GET Method

This method will return a json response will all blog posts available.

curl -XGET 'http://localhost:8080'

The response of will be an array of blog posts:

[  
 {  
 "id": "bf94aca0-14a6-4e21-b9ac-bcaabb38224b",  
 "title": "Code block",  
 "content": "This aspncfsiadnmad
asdkas pdas mdkaspkdpsad,sapd,as",  
 "date": "2021-12-20"  
 }  
]  

POST Method

This method will make a new blog post in the database. The body of the POST method should be defined in a json format with the following structure:

{  
 "title": "Title of the blog",  
 "content": "Content of the blog which accepts html elements."  
}

Example:

curl -XPOST -d '{ "title": "Blog 1231", "content": "THIS IS THE CONTENT" }' 'http://localhost:8080/blog'

If the results where successfull the server will return nothing. In addition, if there is a blog with the exact title, the server will return an 500 Internal Server error to prevent posts with exact title.

DELETE Method

This method is used to delete a blog post. The endpoint for this method is defined as: http://localhost:8080/blog/id where, id is refering to the blog's id which can be found in the blog endpoint. Example:

curl -XDELETE 'http://localhost:8080/blog/d378be8c-8d41-4769-afac-342b2d7c1a92'

If the delete operation was successful the server will return nothing otherwise it will return an error.