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GaikaiTest Project

FACTS ABOUT THE PROJECT

Technologies used : Java7, Gradle, Tomcat, Jersey, Servlets, Jsoup, Java Threading Objective : To display the top games using REST service web scraped from metacritic website. Please refer the PDF document to get idea of objective. Explanation : I have used threading and jsoup parse to extract the top games from the metacritic website. Once the web app starts running on tomcat server, it makes a request to the metacritic website using jsoup library using a thread in the servlet web listner. I have kept a fixed refresh interval where I make requests to the metacritic website to fetch the top games using the above process. I store the top games and ratings information in the static member of a class. When the rest services call is made by the browser, I simply use the data in the static memeber of that class to return the expected content. This way I always get the latest content from the metacritic website as well as I do not have to keep making requests each time to the metacritic website to fetch the data each time the rest service is called.

OBJECTIVES TO BE ACHIEVED :

1. Method : GameFetchTask.scrapWebData()
2. RESTful Services : GameRestService.getTopGames() GameRestService.getGameInfo()

RUNNING THE PROJECT This Java project is build using Gradle. Gradle can be downloaded from : http://www.gradle.org/

Once you have gradle installed on your OS, you can navigate inside the project and run this command from command line

 gradle tomcatRunWar

It will run the project on tomcat server.

After this you can navigate to this URL on any rest client like

Postman : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/postman-rest-client/fdmmgilgnpjigdojojpjoooidkmcomcm?hl=en

Now since the rest services are running on the tomcat server, navigate to this URL to get the top games:

http://localhost:8080/GaikaiTest/rest/top/games It will give something like this as an output. [ { "title": "XCOM: Enemy Within", “score”: 88 }, { "title": "Assasin’s Creed IV: Black Flag", “score”: 88 } … etc ... ]

In case you want to find score for a top game then just append the game title to the Rest API URL. For example, navigate to this URL:
http://localhost:8080/GaikaiTest/rest/top/games/Gran%20Turismo%206 It will give something like this as an output.

{ "title": "Gran Turismo 6", "score": 81 }