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Rick And Morty requirements

Business requirements

• Task: Create API. It should contain two methods:

1. The request randomly generates a wiki about one character in the universe the animated series Rick & Morty. Response example:

   {
     "id": 1,
     "externalId": "1",
     "name": "Rick Sanchez",
     "status": "Alive",
     "gender": "Male"
   }

   NOTE: externalId field should save the original character ID received from the external API. id field should represent the identifier of entire Character entity, that is associated with internal DB.

2. The request takes a string as an argument, and returns a list of all characters whose name contains the search string. During the application start, the web application downloads data from a third-party service to the internal database. Implemented API requests must work with a local database (i.e. fetch data from a database).

• What to use:

1. You must use public API (you should use REST API).
2. All data from the public API should be fetched once, and only once, when the Application context is created

Tech Requirements

• Use MySQL DB in your app.
• Use H2 DB in your test configuration (It is already configured in the src/test/resources/application.properties file).
• Keep identical set of params in the src/main/resources/application.properties and src/test/resources/application.properties files. In other case you may face a problem with Application Context creation during the mvn test phase.
• Requests must be documented using Swagger.