The Election Spring Boot Service is a RESTful Web Service, backed by MongoDB, using Atlas on GCP, and RabbitMQ, using CloudAMQP on GCP. It is part of the Voter API (see diagram below). The Election service exposes several HTTP API endpoints, listed below. API users can manage elections and inspect technical information about the running service.
The service uses a context path of /election. All endpoints must be are prefixed with this sub-path.
| Purpose | Method | Endpoint |
|---|---|---|
| List All Service Endpoints | GET | /election/mappings |
| Create Election | POST | /election/elections |
| Read Election | GET | /election/elections/{id} |
| Read Elections | GET | /election/elections |
| Update Election | PUT | /election/elections/{id} |
| Delete Election | DELETE | /election/elections/{id} |
| Distinct List of Elections | GET | /election/summary |
| Drop All Elections | POST | /election/drop/elections |
| Service Info | GET | /election/election/info |
| Service Health | GET | /election/health |
| Other Spring Actuator endpoints | GET | election/actuator, election/metrics, election/env, election/configprops, etc. |
Other HATEOAS endpoints for /election/elections |
Various | page sort, size, etc. |
The HAL Browser API browser for the hal+json media type is installed alongside the service. It can be accessed at http://localhost:8095/election/actuator/.
Creating a new election requires an HTTP POST request to the /election/elections endpoint, as follows:
Using HTTPie command line HTTP client.
http POST http://localhost:8095/election/elections \
date='2008-11-04' \
electionType='FEDERAL' \
title='2008 Presidential Election' \
description='56th quadrennial American presidential election'http POST http://localhost:8095/election/elections \
date='2008-11-04' \
electionType='FEDERAL' \
title='2008 Presidential Election' \
description='56th quadrennial American presidential election'wget
wget --method POST \
--header 'content-type: application/json' \
--body-data '{ "electionType": "2008-11-04", "electionType": "FEDERAL", "title": "2008 Presidential Election", "description": "56th quadrennial American presidential election" }' \
--no-verbose \
--output-document - http://localhost:8095/election/electionsHTTP/1.1 201
Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Content-Type, Accept, X-Requested-With, remember-me
Access-Control-Allow-Methods: POST, GET, OPTIONS, DELETE
Access-Control-Max-Age: 3600
Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8
Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 00:05:57 GMT
Location: http://localhost:8095/election/elections/5918f0e51162e16da6d1cb8c
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
X-Application-Context: Election Service:8095
{
"_links": {
"election": {
"href": "http://localhost:8095/election/elections/5918f0e51162e16da6d1cb8c"
},
"self": {
"href": "http://localhost:8095/election/elections/5918f0e51162e16da6d1cb8c"
}
},
"date": "2008-11-04T00:00:00.000+0000",
"electionType": "FEDERAL",
"title": "2008 Presidential Election",
"description": "56th quadrennial American presidential election"
}
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