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Kotlin example with Spring Data Neo4J and Spring Web

A basic application which uses Kotlin as a programming language to demonstrate power of Kotlin and its basic principles.

The application uses [Neo4J Movie demo] (https://neo4j.com/developer/example-project/) database as data set and demonstrates connection to and usage of [Neo4J] (https://neo4j.com/) Graph Database using Spring Data Neo4j.

Pre-requisites

  • JDK 1.6 or 1.7 or 1.8
  • Neo4J installed and running, with the Movie Dataset
  • Maven

The Stack

Kotlin is the programming language used in the application, plus

  • Spring Boot
  • Spring Data Neo4J
  • Spring Web and Spring Data Rest
  • Neo4J Server
  • Kotlin JUnit, Hamcrest, JUnit, Neo4J OGM Test
  • Embedded Neo4J Server is used for tests

Run on your local

  1. Download, install and start [Neo4J Server] (https://neo4j.com/download/)
  2. Setup Movie Dataset
    • Open the Web Interface of Neo4J by typing http://localhost:7474 in your browser
    • Configure 'kotlin' as password
    • Run :play movies, click and run the Cypher statement
  3. Go to the project root, and run mvn spring-boot:run
  4. Play with the following endpoints, by either typing them in your browser or using [curl] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURL)
   // Search persons by name (example name - Tykwer) 
   http://localhost:8080/persons/:name
   
   // Search movies by name - (example title - matrix) 
   http://localhost:8080/movies/:title
   
   // Display graph of movies with meta info
   http://localhost:8080/movies/graph