MiniTwitter

→ Implements a Twitter-like messaging service using Spring Boot.

→ Provides a Rest API with all endpoints under Basic HTTP Authentication which is implemented using Spring Security.

→ Data stored in H2, an in-memory SQL database.

Given below are the functionalities:

1. Get the current user's followers:

curl -u "<username>:<password>" "http://localhost:8080/followers"

2. Get people which the current user follows:

curl -u "<username>:<password>" "http://localhost:8080/following"

3. Follow a particular user:

curl -u "<username>:<password>" -X PUT "http://localhost:8080/follow" --data "name=Xandra"

4. Unfollow a particular user:

curl -u "<username>:<password>" -X PUT "http://localhost:8080/unfollow" --data "name=Xandra"

5. Get user feed:

a) This is used to get tweets of the user himself and of all the users he follows.

curl -u "<username>:<password>" "http://localhost:8080/feed"

b) Supports a "?search=" functionality which filters tweets depending on keyword given.

curl -u "<username>:<password>" "http://localhost:8080/feed?search=lorem"

6. Gets a popular follower for every user.

curl -u "<username>:<password>" "http://localhost:8080/popularfollower"

The username and password has been stored in application.properties file. We make an assumption that the user to which the username belongs, is one of the 10 users which we create at the start of the application.