We can start up the application in following ways.

1. Double click on the jar present in the "output" directory.
2. Open command prompt in output directory execute following command: java -jar redditimages-api-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
3. Execute maven command : mvn clean package In target folder redditimages-api-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar would be generated. execute command mentioned in option 2.

Request:

Port : 9080 context root: reddit-images-api/v1.0 request path: /images Header "topic" is mandatory.

Request url: http://localhost:9080/reddit-images-api/v1.0/images

header: topic:Sun