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This is a Spring-based showcasing the use of Crnk. Further smaller example applications integrating into various frameworks can be found at crnk-integration-examples.

WARNING: this example project is still in development and subject to various improvements, see roadmap

Requirements

Crnk requires Java 8 or later.

Licensing

Crnk is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. You can grab a copy of the license at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.

Building from Source

Crnk make use of Gradle for its build. To build the project run

gradlew build

Running the application

In order to run this example do:

gradlew run

or

docker run --name=crnk -p 8080:8080 crnk/example

The JSON API endpoint will be available at:

http://localhost:8080/api/

Some further URLs to play around that show the power of Crnk:

http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/movie
http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/movie/44cda6d4-1118-3600-9cab-da760bfd678c
http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/movie/44cda6d4-1118-3600-9cab-da760bfd678c
http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/movie/44cda6d4-1118-3600-9cab-da760bfd678c/project
http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/movie/44cda6d4-1118-3600-9cab-da760bfd678c/relationships/project
http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/movie?sort=-name
http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/movie?sort=-id,name
http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/movie?sort=id&page[offset]=0&page[limit]=2
http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/movie?filter[name]=Iron Man
http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/movie?filter[name][EQ]=Iron Man
http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/movie?filter[name][LIKE]=Iron
http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/schedule
http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/meta/resource
http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/vote?fields=name // demos fields set & performance issues
http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/secrets // demos error
http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/facet?filter[resourceType]=movie // get movie facets

IDE

Make sure to enable annotation processing support when using IntelliJ IDEA. Otherwise it will not be able to find the generated sources from the Crnk annotation processor (type-safe Query objects).

Build Setup

The project makes use of https://github.com/rmee/gradle-plugins/ for the build setup.

  • if no JAVA_HOME is configured (recommended), a suitable JDK will be downloaded automatically by the jdk-bootstrap plugin.
  • src/main/helm holds a Helm chart to deploy to Kubernetes.
  • Deployment to Kubernetes is triggered by the deploy task. All the deployment is confined to Docker images and a project-specific home directory located in build/home. No installation of any tooling necessary thanks to the plugins in use. Further wrapper scripts like ./kubectl allow to use this deployment setup from a shell (GitBash, Linux, etc.). For deployment CRNK_GCLOUD_REGION, CRNK_GCLOUD_PROJECT, CRNK_GCLOUD_CLUSTER environment variables must be set and credentials be available in crnk-example-service/secrets/gcloud.key.

Pointers

The crnk-example-service project showcases:

  • Use of Lombok to avoid getter/setter boiler-plate.
  • Integration of Crnk into Spring Boot
  • io.crnk:crnk-format-plain-json has been applied for slightly simplified version of JSON:API without attributes, relationships, includes section.
  • A simple in-memory repository withScreeningRepository that keeps all resources in a map.
  • Exposing entities with crnk-jpa using MovieRepository, PersonRepository, etc. extending JpaEntityRepositoryBase. Behind the scenes the QuerySpec is translated to an efficient JPA Criteria query.
  • A manually written repository with VoteRepository. It makes use of Thread.sleep to simulate heavy work.
  • A custom exception is introduced with CustomExceptionMapper that is mapped to a JSON API error and HTTP status code.
  • using @JsonApiRelationId with ScreeningRepository to handle use cases where the related ID is easy to get, which in turn allows to omit having to implement relationship repositories.
  • implementing a relationship repository withAttributeChangeRelationshipRepository.
  • implementing a multi-valued nested resource with Secret and its identifier SecretId.
  • implementing a single-valued nested resource with SecreeningStatus. Shared the same ID as the screening itself and make use of SerializeType.EAGER to directly be shown with the screening (see http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/screening)
  • introducing new relationships to existing resources without touching those resources with AttributeChangeFieldProvider.
  • PersonEntity as dynamic resource by annotating a Map-based field with @JsonAnyGetter and @JsonAnySetter
  • SecurityConfiguration performs a OAuth setup with GitHub as provider. LoginRepository gives access to information about the logged-in user through http://localhost:8080/api/user. Enable spring security in the application.yaml to make use of the security features. Security is disabled by default to facilitate playing with the example app. The security setup is still work in progress.
  • CSRF (resp. XSRF in Angular terminology) protection through SpringSecurityConfiguration.
  • ExampleSecurityConfigurer to setup role-based access control.
  • ScheduleDecoratorFactory to intercept and modify requests to repositories.
  • The documentation gets generated to build/asciidoc upon executing gradlew build. Have a look at the build.gradle file and the capturing based on AsciidocCaptureModule within the test cases.
  • Support for facetted search by applying crnk-data-facets. MovieEntity.year as been marked as being facetted with @Facet. See http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/facet?filter[resourceType]=movie.
  • MovieRepository provides an interface for the MovieRepositoryImpl which allows type-safe access to movie result lists in CrnkClient.
  • MovieRepository makes use of HasMoreResourcesMetaInformation through a custom MovieList type. This triggers the use of a previous/next paging strategy, rather than always computing the total count in a second, potentially expensive query.

The TestDataLoader will automatically setup some test data upon start.

The project itself makes use of an number of third-party plugins to bootstrap a JDK, build Helm packages and allow a Kubernetes installation to Google Cloud. For more information see https://github.com/rmee/gradle-plugins/.

Feedback and PRs very welcomed!

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