Welcome Candidate and thank you for taking the time to complete the take-home challenge for our backend engineer position

Once you have completed your solution, please reply with a link to a github repository and instructions on how to install / run the application

Good luck and if you have questions, please reach out to us at [email protected]

1. Make sure you have min Java 11 installed.
2. Run ./gradlew build to build the api and dependencies. To start the API server, run ./gradlew bootrun. (You can also use IDE commands for build/running if you wish)

This exercise is to implement the best possible solution to the exercise below. We're evaluating your ability to take a set of requirements and spike a holistic solution that demonstrates craftsmanship, thoughtfulness and good architectural design. If you want to impress us, build something that is beautiful, highest performant, intuitive and easy to debug/test/extend 😃 . Extra points if you can also add tests

Ideally your solution would have some way to run locally so we can fully analyze your efforts.

Design and implement a Java REST API that CRUDs artists.

** A boilerplate model, controller and repository has been created for you **

• first_name (required)

• middle_name

• last_name (required)

• category (Can be one of ACTOR | PAINTER | SCULPTOR) (required)

• birthday (required)

• email (required)

• notes

###Notes:

• The request and response should both be in JSON format

• You can use the provided in-memory DB (H2)

• Creation route should validate for required parameters (ex. if last_name not given or blank it should throw an error)

• Filters should be case insensitive (ex. /artists?category=actor is the same as /artists?category=ACTOR)

           - GET         /artists/:id     (Show)
           - GET         /artists         (Index)
           - POST        /artists         (Create)
           - DELETE      /artists/:id     (Delete)

• Getting a list of artists should be filterable. Ability to Filter by category, birthday-month, search (search -> can search by first_name or last_name, it should also partial search, ex. given search=vin should bring up kevin, if we have a kevin in the system) , you should also be able to filter by one, or more filters, for example search and category
• Try to make sure your solution is the best performant, you can make any changes/additions you like to DB schema/indexes, application.properties, or any spring/java classes
• Assume that we have a big collection of artists in the DB, make sure things are performant based on that assumption

We can start up the application either using an IDE or using ./gradlew bootrun I personally used postman the call the apis. The parameters are named the same as the requirements given above Creating artist:

Deleting artist:

Getting all artist: (with filters)

Getting single artist: Using a path variable for this one