[Ballerina] Inventory management system

The sample is based on a simple API written for a inventory-management system. Following is the high level component diagram.

Following is the interface of the Order service.

type OrderService service object {
    *http:Service;

    resource function get orders() returns Order[]|error;
    resource function get orders/[int id]() returns Order|OrderNotFound|error;
    resource function post orders(NewOrder newOrder) returns OrderCreated;
};

Prerequisites

• Ballerina Swan Lake Update 8 (or higher)
• Docker
• Ballerina and REST Client extensions in VSCode

Setup environment

With Docker Compose

1. Checkout the code base and move to the root folder.
2. Execute build-docker-images.sh script to generate the necessary docker images.
3. Execute docker compose up.

Without Docker Compose

1. Setup a MySQL database.
2. Execute the script init.sql in db-setup.
3. Build and run the inventory_svc project.

bal build inventory_svc;
bal run inventory_svc/target/bin/inventory_svc.jar

4. Build and run the order_svc project.

bal build order_svc;
bal run order_svc/target/bin/order_svc.jar

Try out

• To start the completed setup run docker compose up.
• To send request open inventory-mng-request.http file using VS Code with REST Client extension.