PD Library Rental

Rental is one of the services that makes PD Library.

It keeps track of who and when rented a book. It provides functionalities for renting, reserving and returning a book. It is not concerned by the book metadata, like authors, titles, etc. It only cares about rental aspect of books.

Delivery mechanism

• REST API served over Gateway

Security

• Protected by the User Profile JWT token issued by the PD Library User Profile service

Dependencies

1. Mongo database
2. Kafka

Dependencies can be run from Infrastructure project, by docker compose scripts.

Build and run locally

Locally, application can be started in two ways.

• From source code
• From latest published Docker image

From source code (Run from IntelliJ)

Suitable when developing features in this project.

1. Set Spring Profile to local by following these steps:

• Open "Edit Configurations"
• in the section "Library Application" find the field "Program arguments";
• enter the following command: --spring.profiles.active=local

2. Press Run or Debug Library Application

From latest published Docker image

Suitable when developing features in other projects, and you need this one as a dependency.

For this purpose see Infrastructure project.