Employee REST API is a golang based microservice which is responsible for all the employee related transactions in the OT-Microservices. This application is completely platform independent and can be run on any kind of platform.

Supported features in the applications are:-

• Gin REST API for web transactions
• ScyllaDB as primary database for storing information
• Redis as a cache management system for quick response
• Swagger integration for the documentation of the API
• Prometheus's metrics support to monitor application health and performance

Pre-Requisites

The application doesn't have any specific pre-requisites except the database connectivity. Additionally, we can add Redis as cache system but it's not part of the mandatory setup.

For running the application, we need following things configured:

• ScyllaDB
• Redis

Architecture

Application

For building the application, we can use make command. The same command can be used to build docker image as well.

make build
make docker-build

For execution of the unit test cases, code coverage reports, etc. We can use go test command.

go test $(go list ./... | grep -v docs | grep -v model | grep -v main.go) -coverprofile cover.out
# For HTML report visualization
go tool cover -html=cover.out

The test cases are covered for only these packages:-

• api
• client
• config
• middleware
• routes

For dev testing, the Swagger UI can be used for sample payload generation and requests. The swagger page will be accessible on http://localhost:8080/swagger/index.html

To run the application, simple binary commands can be used. Before running the application, we have to make sure our mandatory database (ScyllaDB) is up and running. Configuration properties will be configured inside config.yaml file. Also, once the property file is defined and configured properly, we need to run migrations to create database, schema etc. The connection details for migration is available in migration.json.

make run-migrations

Once the keyspace and table is initialized, we can run the application by:

export GIN_MODE=release
# For debugging set gin mode to development
./employee-api

Endpoints Information

Endpoint	Method	Description
/metrics	GET	Application healthcheck and performance metrics are available on this endpoint
/api/v1/employee/health	GET	Endpoint for providing shallow healthcheck information about application health and readiness
/api/v1/employee/health/detail	GET	Endpoint for providing detailed health check about dependencies as well like - ScyllaDB and Redis
/api/v1/employee/create	POST	Data creation endpoint which accepts certain JSON body to add employee information in database
/api/v1/employee/search	GET	Endpoint for searching data information using the params in the URL
/api/v1/employee/search/all	GET	Endpoint for searching all information across the system
/api/v1/employee/search/location	GET	Application endpoint for getting the count and information of location
/api/v1/employee/search/designation	GET	Application endpoint for getting the count and information of designation
/swagger/index.html	GET	Swagger endpoint for the application API documentation and their data models

Contact Information

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