This repository holds the source code for the backend services for locations/places included included the climateTree.wiki web application. This application was built using Java, Maven, and Spring Boot. This repo contains the following important folders:
- Controller
- Hosts the API endpoints
- Dao
- Provides queries that can be called on the connected database.
- All queries return a GeoJson object string.
- Services
- Intermediary class between the Controller and the Dao that performs additional data processing steps.
The Model and DTO folders are not currently in use, but were kept for archiving purposes.
It is important to note that only 1 of the 4 APIs is currently being used in the climateTree.wiki project. The
only API that is being used is /api/v1/places/{name}. This is being used by the front end to retrieve the names
of places that contain the given name. All other APIs have been transition to GeoServer. The GeoServer repository
can be viewed here.
The endpoints that are defined in the Controller can be viewed here on Postman
This application directly connects to the ClimateTree project's Places Database that is currently hosted
on Azure. Connection strings are provided as environment variables to the application.properties configuration. The
database schema can be seen here.