📚 Spring Boot Book Store

This is a RESTful Book Store API built with Spring Boot, featuring CRUD operations for managing books and authors. The application uses Spring Data JPA with an H2 in-memory database and includes Swagger UI for easy API exploration.

🚀 Features

• Create, read, update, and delete books
• Associate books with authors
• Search books by author name
• API validation using DTOs
• In-memory H2 database for fast setup
• Swagger UI for API documentation and testing

🛠 Tech Stack

• Java 17
• Spring Boot
• Spring Web
• Spring Data JPA
• H2 Database
• Jakarta Bean Validation
• Swagger (springdoc-openapi)

Prerequisites

• Java 17+
• Maven or mvnd

Swagger UI

Once the app is running, access the Swagger UI at: http://localhost:8080/swagger-ui/index.html

📂 Project Structure

src
└── main
    ├── java
    │   └── com.book
    │       ├── Controller
    │       ├── DTO
    │       ├── Model
    │       ├── Repository
    │       └── Service
    └── resources

📬 API Endpoints

POST /newBook - Add a new book

GET /books - List all books

GET /books/{id} - Get book by ID

PUT /books/{id} - Update book

DELETE /books/{id} - Delete book

GET /books/search?name= - Search books by author name

And more (see Swagger UI)

✅ To-Do

Add unit/integration tests

Add user authentication (future enhancement)

Connect to PostgreSQL or MySQL for production-ready DB

📎 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

👤 Author

Julian Blanco

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