Website NIAEFEUP - BackEnd

The online platform for NIAEFEUP.

Below, you can find a quickstart guide with development setup and project structure. For additional information about any implementation or usage details, please refer to our Wiki Page.

Development setup

Prerequisites

• Java JDK 17+
• Gradle 7.5+

Running

With IntelliJ

Simply load the Gradle project and run the application. For automatic restart to fire up every time a source file changes, make sure that Build project automatically under File | Settings | Build, Execution, Deployment | Compiler is checked.

With the command line

Run the following command in your shell:

./gradlew bootRun

Linting

We use ktlint to ensure a consistent coding style according to the community standards, through a Gradle plugin.

With IntelliJ

Although IntelliJ does not provide linting suggestions for Kotlin out of the box, you can use a third-party plugin to run the linter at real time.

With the command line

You can fire up the analysis yourself by running in your shell:

./gradlew ktlintCheck

You can fix the lint automatically by running in your shell:

./gradlew ktlintFormat

With a git hook

You can setup a local precommit git hook for lint analysis running a Gradle task provided by the used linting plugin:

./gradlew addKtlintCheckGitPreCommitHook

Or even an auto-format hook, if that is your thing:

./gradlew addKtlintFormatGitPreCommitHook

Testing

With IntelliJ

Run the test suite as usual, selecting the respective task for running.

With the command line

Run the following command in your shell:

./gradlew test

API Documentation

API documentation is generated through the use of the Spring REST Docs API specification Integration (aka restdocs-api-spec), a Spring Rest Docs extension that builds an OpenAPI specification or a Postman collection from its description, included in the controller tests. To see examples of how to document the API, hop to one of the controller tests and read the API documentation wiki page.

Find the current version of the API documentation here.

The Postman collection is also available here.

With IntelliJ

Run the generateDocs gradle task to generate the OpenAPI specification or the Postman collection.

With the command line

Run the following command in your shell:

./gradlew generateDocs

Results

Find the OpenAPI specification and Postman collection under docs/ after running the task.

Project Structure

• src/main
  • backend/ - Contains all the source code (excluding tests and resources)
    • config/ - Configuration classes used at boot
    • controller/ - Methods that register endpoints for the app
    • model/ - Database entity models (Spring Data JPA entities)
    • dto/ - Data Transfer Objects for creating and modifying entities
    • repository/ - Data access layer methods (Spring Data repositories)
    • service/ - Business logic for the controllers
    • utils/ - Auxiliary packages used in the project
      • extensions/ - Extension functions used throughout the project
      • validation/ - Custom validations used across the different models
  • resources/ - All assets and static files needed, including static configurations
• src/test/ - Self explanatory: unit tests, functional (end-to-end) tests, etc.