A microservice for managing comments in the Babbly social media platform.

The Babbly Comment Service is a RESTful API that provides endpoints for creating, reading, updating, and deleting comments. It uses Apache Cassandra as its database and is designed to be deployed as a Docker container.

• GET /api/Comment: Get all comments
• GET /api/Comment/{id}: Get a specific comment by ID
• GET /api/Comment/post/{postId}: Get all comments for a specific post
• GET /api/Comment/user/{userId}: Get all comments by a specific user
• POST /api/Comment: Create a new comment
• PUT /api/Comment/{id}: Update an existing comment
• DELETE /api/Comment/{id}: Delete a comment

• GET /api/Health: Check service health

• ASP.NET Core
• C# 10
• Apache Cassandra
• Docker

• .NET 9.0 SDK
• Docker & Docker Compose
• Apache Cassandra (for local development without Docker)

The following environment variables can be configured:

• ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT: Development, Staging, or Production
• CassandraHosts: Comma-separated list of Cassandra hosts
• CassandraKeyspace: Cassandra keyspace name
• CassandraUsername: Cassandra username (optional)
• CassandraPassword: Cassandra password (optional)

1. Clone the repository
2. Navigate to the root directory
3. Run docker-compose up -d
4. Access the API at http://localhost:5004/swagger

1. Start a local Cassandra instance
2. Update appsettings.Development.json with your Cassandra configuration
3. Run dotnet run from the project directory
4. Access the API at http://localhost:5000/swagger

{
  "id": "guid",
  "content": "string",
  "postId": "guid",
  "userId": "string",
  "createdAt": "timestamp"
}

The service uses a Cassandra keyspace named babbly_comments with the following tables:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS comments (
    id uuid PRIMARY KEY,
    content text,
    post_id uuid,
    user_id text,
    created_at timestamp
);

CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS ON comments (post_id);
CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS ON comments (user_id);

dotnet build

dotnet test

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.