uOttawa CSI 2132 Winter 2024 Course Project
Group Members: Aiden Garrett (300293059), Kelly Song (300287703), Andy Yep (300291757)

eHotels is a very rudimentary hotel booking system.

This is the backend (REST API server and JDBC interface) for the eHotels system. Click here for the frontend source code.

Before building/starting the backend, make sure you have a DBMS user created for use in PostgreSQL.

Then, make a copy of the application.properties.template file, fill out the empty fields as outlined, and rename the file to application.properties. This file is located in the resources folder (src/main/resources).

Ensure you have JDK 17 and PostgreSQL installed. You'll also need gradle, though you can opt to use the copy that's bundled with the source code (gradlew).

The easiest way to run the backend is probably through the IDE.

If you're reading this README file in IntelliJ IDEA, you can simply start the application by clicking the play button below:

Spaghetti

If the button above didn't work, simply open the Spaghetti class and click on the "Run" button that appears beside the following line:

    public static void main(String[] args) {...}

(located at src/main/java/ca/uottawa/csi2132/group196/spaghetti/Spaghetti.java)

Alternatively, if you don't have IntelliJ IDEA installed or don't feel like running it through that, you can do it through the command line.

In the project root (where the build.gradle file is), run the following command:

gradle bootRun

You can also build a jar with

gradle bootJar

which will be output to the build/libs folder.

Then run the jar with the java command directly:

cd build/libs
java -jar spaghetti-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar

You can view and interact with the endpoints all in one convenient spot with Swagger. To use Swagger, simply go to the following URL:

http://localhost:8080/swagger-ui/index.html

(if you end up changing the hostname, then use the respective hostname)