I am continuing to improve my skills in creating RESTFUL API's and so I am taking on this project created by Promineo Tech.

They have been kind enough to provide the instruction and starter files, and I am very excited to combine what I learn here with other projects I have created.

This file will serve as my Dev journal until I begin my documentation.

-06 Aug 2022-

• Completed section pertaining to retrieving an image from the database.
• Results verified through unit test, uploading an image via postman and calling the image by id through the browser.
• Starting to feel like project is nearing completion.

-17 July 2022-

• flesh out service.
• read image data to a buffered image got width and height and saved to image object.
• save image object to database.
• received image id back along with status code of 201 confirming creation and successful test.

-13 July 2022-

• Now that image object has been created, have begun work on saving image object to db.

-9 July 2022-

• Created new test that doenst use tomcat server and configured mock mvc object, create mock multipart file object to hold image, then sent to controller with PK number of jeep.
• Test was successful indicating file was found.
• Focus is now on writing and reading image from database.

-18 May 2022-

• Discovered that in pulling methods to separate classes, errors were being caused due to duplicate methods returning a default null value instead of the intended method returning a built object.
• Also located a few typos.
• Application is now functioning in intended manner and development continues.

-14 May 2022-

• Created model result set extractors.
• Made a means for adding on calculated price to order object.
• Assert that objects were missing their dependency and so was finally able to track it down and now the test can run.
• Test is currently returning 500 internal server error.
• Will circle back through lessons now that distraction of why .hasSize() was throwing a fit when nothing else was.

-2 May 2022-

• Created a new integration test
• Created Order JSON Object
• Create req and resp objects
• Test validated with 201 response

-1 May 2022-

• Created parameterized test checking for length of input, validation for character type and object type.
• Turned on bean validation.
• added validation error handlers to the global error handler.
• Intro to mocking w Mockito.
• added test for unplanned error. Unplanned errors print stack trace.
• created inner test classes w @Nested allows for unpolluted bean registry.
• Completed all four outcomes for a request through controller.
• First operation completed.

-30 Apr 2022-

• Created Global Error Handler.
• Created DOA layer.
• Implemented a comparator for testing valid input in the trim selection, as well as creating a test that will return error message.

-24 Apr 2022-

• Discussed spring mapping based on component scan and implemented logger with Lombok @Slf4j as an info logger. Intending to research more for connections to l4J.

• Implemented debug logger.

• Altered test to expect a list of jeep objects which it currently fails as expected.

• Created yaml file for debug configuration

• Discussed need for arg constructors when implementing spring builder

• Discussed dependency injection and inversion of control

• Discussed interface driven development and benefits.

• Talked about definitions of controller , service and DAO layers

• How @Autowired is needed for injection and that it requires a bean or managed object instance

• Discussed DAO a bit more JDBC, connection pools and transaction managers.

• Added mysql driver and jdbc driver to pom and added to our yaml configuration file.

-18 Apr 2022-

-15 Apr 2022-

-14 Apr 2022-

Began building out the project utilizing the provided instructions and starter files. Looking forward to it!