Dropwizard Demo

This repo serves as a very basic example of a Dropwizard application.

The API represents a very very basic Product model.

cat | http put :8080/products/1
{
  "name": "Product Name",
  "description": "My product description",
  "stock": 123,
  "currency_code": "GBP",
  "price": 123.45
}
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 16:52:31 GMT
Location: http://localhost:8080/products/1

http get :8080/products/1
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 165
Content-Type: application/json
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 16:53:29 GMT

{
    "currency_code": "GBP",
    "description": "My product description",
    "display": {
        "in_stock": true,
        "price": "£123.45"
    },
    "id": 1,
    "name": "Product Name",
    "price": 123.45,
    "stock": 123
}

http get :8080/products
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Length: 152
Content-Type: application/json
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 16:54:56 GMT
Vary: Accept-Encoding

[
    {
        "currency_code": "GBP",
        "description": "My product description",
        "display": {
            "in_stock": true,
            "price": "£123.45"
        },
        "id": 1,
        "name": "Product Name",
        "price": 123.45,
        "stock": 123
    },
    {
        "currency_code": "GBP",
        "description": "My product description",
        "display": {
            "in_stock": true,
            "price": "£123.45"
        },
        "id": 2,
        "name": "Product Name",
        "price": 123.45,
        "stock": 123
    }
]

http delete :8080/products/1
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 0
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 16:55:26 GMT

Usage

mvn package
java -jar target/productdemo-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar server config.yml

Noteworthy Features

• Custom health checks
• Application lifecycle hooks
• Simple (de)serialization
• Code over configuration