September 2019
Intermediate to advanced
668 pages
15h 59m
English
Content preview from Hands-On Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud
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Testing APIs manually
That concludes the implementation of our microservices. Let's try them out by performing the following steps:
- Build and start them up as background processes.
- Use curl to call the composite API.
- Stop them.
First, build and start-up each microservice as a background process, as follows:
cd $BOOK_HOME/Chapter03/2-basic-rest-services/./gradlew build
Once the build completes, we can launch our microservices as background processes to the Terminal process with the following code:
java -jar microservices/product-composite-service/build/libs/*.jar &java -jar microservices/product-service/build/libs/*.jar &java -jar microservices/recommendation-service/build/libs/*.jar &java -jar microservices/review-service/build/libs/*.jar ...