Backend API for Movies Website v2

Movie

• Contains information such as Title, ID, Release Date, Genres, and more

Example:

{
  "movie": {
    "id": "tt-123141",
    "title": "My Life",
    "releaseDate": "Aug 00010",
    "runTime": 180,
    "genres": [
      "ACTION", "THRILLER"
    ]
  }
}

GetMovieRequest (/api/v1/GetMovieRequest)

• Request specific movie with id
• Will return Movie object if found

Example Input:

{
  "id": "movie-id-123124"
}

GetMovieResult

• Movie object with the id

SearchMovieRequest (/api/v1/SearchMovieRequest)

• Request for movie search
• Can be Title, Year, Genre, Latest, Upcoming, etc.
• Input is just URL path

Example Input:

{
  "path": "movies/search/title/Avengers"
}

Example Output

 {
   "movie": [
    {
      "id": "movie-id-123124",
      "title": "The Avengers",
      "releaseDate": "124141245",
      "runtime": 160
    },
    {
      "id": "movie-id-5678",
      "title": "Avengers: Endgame",
      "releaseDate": "Aug 131",
      "runTime": 100
    }
  ]
 }

TODO: Add actual response example

FrontEnd will handle form submission and change URL according to type of search, examples:

Search by Title: /movies/search/title/Avengers

Search by Genre: /movies/search/genre/horror

Search by Year: /movies/search/year/2019

Search by Latest: /movies/search/latest

Get Movie by Id: /movies/movieid12345

Things to keep in mind:

• Should handle calling API for movies even if results appear
• Should also periodically use API to get new movies
• Also update existing movie info if it is incomplete due to not being able to receive all the info
• Should have a minimum percentage of missing info to avoid random movies from being displayed
• Can use more APIs or WebScraping for more movie data

Should be much more organized and easier to read/build upon than old website

Separation of Back-End and Front-End already makes requests much easier to execute and Java makes managing movie data much nicer

Currently working on:

• Implementing basic Get/Search functions and SQL functions
• Converting old String Dates to SQL Dates
• Need to begin using pooling for database connection