Gold Medal Metrics Challenge Project

Overview

In this project, you will use Spring Data JPA to power an Olympics analytics web app.

Testing

You can use cURL to manually test your API endpoints.

Here are some example cURL requests and responses.

Get countries, sorted by name in ascending order

curl --request GET "http://localhost:3001/countries?sort_by=name&ascending=y"                                   

{"countries":[{"name":"Afghanistan","code":"AFG","gdp":594.32,"population":32526562,"medals":0},...]}

Get the details for the United States Olympic team

curl --request GET "http://localhost:3001/countries/united%20states"                                            

{"name":"United States","gdp":"56115.72","population":"321418820","numberMedals":"2477","numberSummerWins":"2302","percentageTotalSummerWins":"21.957268","yearFirstSummerWin":"1896","numberWinterWins":"175","percentageTotalWinterWins":"9.1098385","yearFirstWinterWin":"1924","numberEventsWonByFemaleAthletes":"747","numberEventsWonByMaleAthletes":"1730"}

Get the list of Gold medal winners for the United States Olympic team, sorted by the athlete's name in descending order

curl --request GET "http://localhost:3001/countries/united%20states/medals?sort_by=name&ascending=n"            

{"medals":[{"year":1968,"city":"Mexico","season":"Summer","name":"ZORN, Zachary","country":"United States","gender":"Men","sport":"Aquatics","discipline":"Swimming","event":"4X100M Freestyle Relay"},...]}