anusha20 / filelinesreader

This is a server that serves individual lines of an immutable text file over the network to clients using the following simple REST API

FileLinesReader

Prerequisite

Please install and configure Maven 3.x

To run

use the following command in the home directory of the project

./run.sh <inputfile_path> [port_no]

example

./run.sh InputFile 2222
./run.sh InputFile

Functional Requirements

This is a server that serves individual lines of an immutable text file over the network to clients using the following simple REST API:

• GET /lines/
• Returns an HTTP status of 200 and the text of the requested line or an HTTP 413 status if the requested line is beyond the end of the file.
• Your server should support multiple simultaneous clients.

Perf requirement

• The system should perform well for small and large files.

• The system should perform well as the number of GET requests per unit time increases.

• You may pre-process the text file in any way that you wish so long as the server behaves correctly.

###The text file will have the following properties:

• Each line is terminated with a newline ("\n").
• Any given line will fit into memory.
• The line is valid ASCII (e.g. not Unicode).