Kotlin, Spring Boot, MySQL, JPA, Hibernate Rest API

Build a Restful CRUD API using Kotlin, Spring Boot, Mysql, JPA and Hibernate.

Requirements

1. Java - 11

2. Maven - 3.x.x

3. Mysql - 5.x.x

Steps to Setup

1. Clone the application

git clone https://github.com/callicoder/kotlin-spring-boot-jpa-rest-api-demo.git

2. Create Mysql database

create database kotlin_demo_app

3. Change mysql username and password as per your installation

• open src/main/resources/application.properties

• change spring.datasource.username and spring.datasource.password as per your mysql installation

4. Running the App

Type the following command in your terminal to run the app -

mvn spring-boot:run

The app will start running at http://localhost:8080.

Explore Rest APIs

The app defines following CRUD APIs.

GET /api/articles

POST /api/articles

GET /api/articles/{id}

PUT /api/articles/{id}

DELETE /api/articles/{id}

You can test them using postman or any other rest client.

Learn more

You can find the tutorial for this application on my blog -

https://www.callicoder.com/kotlin-spring-boot-mysql-jpa-hibernate-rest-api-tutorial/