Reactive REST Spring application for url shortening

Design choices

This project is using Reactive Spring application using nanoid library to shorten url.

Building

To build sources locally follow these instructions.

Build and Run Unit Tests

Execute from project base directory:

./gradlew build bootJar

or use convenient script to do so

./build.sh

Running

Requirements

• docker
• java 11

How to start

To start application with default configuration execute

./start.sh

or run

docker compose up -d
java -jar build/libs/url-shortener-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

Example curl API queries

Create short url for http://youtube.com

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://localhost:8080/short-url --data '{"url":"http://youtube.com"}'

Example response:

{"key":"4NTn86XIjQ","originUrl":"http://youtube.com"}