Groovy Vampires: Combining Groovy, REST, NoSQL, and more
summary
Groovy code pulls Rotten Tomatoes’ REST API (page-by-page via hypermedia links), parses JSON with JsonSlurper and Gson, and stores documents in MongoDB (using the Gongo Groovy wrapper); the crawl yields about 319 movies and the collection is queryable. A small Ratpack app (runs on port 5050) serves JSON endpoints and has Spock tests passing, and a Grails setup exposes the same data via Grails @Resource + GORM mapping despite a few plugin quirks. The pipeline is implemented and works end-to-end.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction and setup
- 12:32REST API fundamentals
- 23:49NoSQL with MongoDB
- 35:32Groovy MongoDB driver
- 44:50Populating the database
- 56:07Rat Pack microservice
- 1:08:42Grails REST application
- 1:19:49Querying and testing
- 1:24:50Conclusion and resources
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