FoodTruckFinder

This application represents both a command line application and a web service to find the nearest set of Food Trucks.

To Run as a Web Service

1. Make sure you have Java 9 and Maven 3.6.3 installed.
2. Either clone this repository or use the link in GitHub to download it.
3. Invoke mvn clean spring-boot:run.

There are four parameters that you can pass in on the URL bar: http://localhost:8080/foodtruckfinder

1. lat (latitude) - required
2. lon (longitude) - required
3. foodType (greps the term in the FoodItems field to let you search for Chinese, Mexican food or something specific like Burritos) -optional
4. mi (distance from the lat/lon the trucks must be in specified in miles) - optional

An example URL is as follows: http://localhost:8080/foodtruckfinder?lat=37.78&long=-122.43&mi=10&foodType=mexican

Right now if you do not specify a distance, you get the whole list ordered closest to you. If you specify a distance, only those trucks within range are shown.

To run as a command line application

This application can also be run as a command line application. The same jar is used for the web service and the command line application. If the command line contains -lat and -lon options, it assumes that the user wants to invoke the service as a command line application, will call the business logic to find the trucks directly and then exit. If the command line arguments do not contain lat/lon then it is assume that the user wants the Spring Boot application started as a web service.

1. Build the application to get the jar file generated. By Maven convention under the subfolder target.
2. java -jar FoodTruckFinder-.jar along with the following command line arguments:
   • -lat (latitude) - required
   • -lon (longitude) - required
   • -foodType (greps the term in the FoodItems field to let you search for Chinese, Mexican food or something specific like Burritos) -optional
   • -mi (distance from the lat/lon the trucks must be in specified in miles) - optional