🌱 Spring Boot REST API - Product CRUD

📝 Overview

This is a simple Spring Boot application that implements a REST API for CRUD operations on products.

✨ Features

• ➕ Create new products
• 📄 Retrieve all products
• 🔍 Retrieve a specific product by ID
• 🛠️ Update an existing product
• ❌ Delete a product

🛠️ Technologies

• Spring Boot
• Spring Data JPA
• Lombok (optional)
• Spring HATEOAS (optional)

🗂️ Project Structure

• pom.xml: Defines project dependencies and configuration.
• src/main/java/: Contains Java source code for models, controllers, and services.
  • models: Defines the ProductModel class representing a product entity.
  • controllers: Contains the ProductController class handling product-related API requests.
• src/main/resources/: (Optional) Contains application properties files.

🚀 Running the Application

1. Ensure you have Maven installed.
2. Clone this repository.
3. Navigate to the project directory in your terminal.
4. Run mvn clean install.
5. The application will start on a default port (usually 8080). You can access the API endpoints using tools like Postman or curl.

🌐 API Endpoints

Method	URL	Description
POST	/products	➕ Creates a new product
GET	/products	📄 Retrieves all products
GET	/products/{id}	🔍 Retrieves a specific product by ID
PUT	/products/{id}	🛠️ Updates an existing product
DELETE	/products/{id}	❌ Deletes a product

📝 Notes

• The provided code utilizes Lombok annotations for cleaner code (optional).
• Spring HATEOAS is included as a dependency (optional) for adding self-referencing links and relationships to responses.
• This is a basic example. You can extend it to include features like user authentication, product categories, etc.
• Refer to the official Spring Boot documentation for more details on configuration and functionalities.