Spring Boot Coding Exercise

This is a simple coding exercise that will allow you to demonstrate your knowledge of spring boot by using a microservice to call a downstream service and return some results.

Project Structure

This is a multi module maven project with two modules:

• The micoservice module produces a spring boot application.
• The functional-tests is used to run functional tests using the karate library.

Instructions

Select one of the two exercises below and add the required behaviour to the spring boot application in the microservice module. You can:

• Add libraries you need.
• Refactor any of the existing code.

You will see that there are already a couple of endpoints in the microservice they are fundamentally there to demonstrate the use of the karate library and should not be taken as complete examples.

Assesment

Your submission will be judge along the following criterea.

• The solution works.
• The solution is maintainable.
• The solution is tested.
• The solution is appropriate.

The Exercises

Example curl api calls for these exercises are listed in the following gist https://gist.github.com/bartonhammond/0a19da4c24c0f644ae38

1. Find the hottest repositories created in the last week

Use the GitHub API to expose an endpoint in this microservice the will get a list of the highest starred repositories in the last week.

The endpoint should accept a parameter that sets the number of repositories to return.

The following fields should be returned:

  html_url
  watchers_count
  language
  description
  name

2. Find the oldest user accounts with zero followers

Use the GitHub API to expose an endpoint in this microservice that will find the oldest accounts with zero followers.

The endpoint should accept a parameter that sets the number of accounts to return.

The following fields should be returned:

  id
  login
  html_url