Book my consulting API serves backend services to manage doctors appointment. It has been built on Spring platform using spring-boot framework.

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

You need following softwares before running this applic ation.

1. Java 8 SDK
2. Apache Maven 3.3 build tool
3. MySQl version 8.14
4. Your favorite IDE such as Intellij/Eclipse (optional)
5. Postman Client for REST APIs testing (optional)

A step by step guide that helps you get a development env running

1. Create database named consultation with associated owner root and execute the SQL commands in the file /src/main/resources/DBLoadScript.sql

2. Checkout repo

3. Go to the folder where the above project has been checked out

4. update the user name password in the appliaction.properties file

      spring.datasource.username={uname}
      spring.datasource.password={pwd}
   
   

5. Build the project using maven command mvn clean install -DskipTests. First time build will consume time as it downloads all dependencies. ```

6. start the application using command mvn spring-boot:run

7. Access the following healthcheck url http://localhost:8080/actuator/health that should result in following output

   {
       "status": "UP"
   }
   

8. Use the postman collection in the repo bookmyconsultation.postman_collection.json

Best wishes!