README.md

Animal Spring Boot Application

This is a simple Spring Boot application to manage animals in an H2 in-memory database.

Running the Application

1. Make sure you have Java 21 installed.
2. Clone the repository.
3. Navigate to the project directory.
4. Run the application using your preferred IDE or using the command line: mvn spring-boot:run

Endpoints

Get all animals

URL: /animals Method: GET Response:

[ { "id": 1, "name": "P", "species": "Penguin", "age": 5 }, { "id": 2, "name": "G", "species": "Girrafe", "age": 3 } ]

Get animal by ID

URL: /animals/{id} Method: GET Response:

{ "id": 1, "name": "Leo", "species": "Lion", "age": 5 }

Create a new animal

URL: /animals Method: POST Request Body:

{ "name": "Bella", "species": "Cat", "age": 2 }

Response: { "id": 3, "name": "Bella", "species": "Cat", "age": 2 }

Curl: curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/animals -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"name":"Bella","species":"Cat","age": 2}'

Delete an animal

URL: /animals/{id} Method: DELETE Response: 204 No Content