#Tweet-feed-service

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SpringBoot based microservice to fetch tweets, based on search criteria. using hbc API to get tweet stream, and sending to Elastic search database by using KAFKA pipeline.

##Pre-requisites:

1. Runtime properties needs to be updated with twitter API details:

   • twitter.token
   • twitter.secret
   • twitter.consumerKey
   • twitter.consumerSecret

2. Kafka broker running with a topic, and provide topic name on the properties file

   • tweets.topic

3. Elastic server up and running
   Publishing to elastic search commented out at the moment uncomment a line of code from class ProcessKafkaMessageToElasticSearch

##Uses: Feed controller API has been exposed to start fetching tweets and stopping the connection http://localhost:8080/tweet-feed-service/swagger-ui.html

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##V1.0.0

• Fixed search capabilities (Hard coded for time being).
• Singleton connection client, as it takes queries as a parameter to build connection object

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##V1.1.0

• Dynamic search capabilities ("/fetch-tweets") takes queries as request param
• Once it fetches tweets with new search criteria then app disconnects the previous connection if present already
• Outsourcing capabilities to create and close connection with twitter rest API.

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