UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER ENGINEERING AND INFORMATICS

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Special Topics in Software Engineering

Preze Cinemas Web
Back-end

Vasileios Evangelos Athanasiou
Student ID: 19390005

GitHub · LinkedIn

Spyros Dellaportas
Student ID: 20390054

GitHub

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Supervision

Supervisor: Georgios Prezerakos, Professor

UNIWA Profile · LinkedIn

Athens, February 2024

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Preze Cinemas Web App - Back-End

Project Overview

Preze Cinemas Web is a full-stack cinema booking system. This repository contains the back-end API layer and data management services.

The back-end is implemented in C# (.NET 6) and exposes RESTful APIs for:

• User authentication and management
• Movie and hall information
• Ticket reservation and confirmation
• Payment handling
• Integration with front-end UI

The project follows clean architecture principles with separate layers for data, business logic, API controllers, and integration tests.

Front-end development is managed separately: Preze Cinemas Front-End

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Repository Structure

Back-end/
├── CinemaData/ # Data layer (Entities, DbContext, Migrations)
├── CinemaStore/ # API Layer (Controllers, Business Logic, Models)
├── CinemaStoreIntegrationTests/ # Integration tests for API
├── assign/ # Assignment instructions and reference materials
├── walkthrough/ # Demo walkthrough video
├── .github/ # CI/CD workflows
├── CinemaWebapp.sln # Visual Studio solution
└── README.md

Key Folders

Folder	Description
CinemaData/	Data layer implementing Entity Framework Core ORM, migrations, and entity models (Movie.cs, Hall.cs, User.cs, Reservation.cs)
CinemaStore/	API layer exposing REST endpoints with controllers, DTOs, and business logic services. Uses Dependency Injection for modularity.
CinemaStoreIntegrationTests/	Integration tests for API endpoints using xUnit and Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Testing
assign/	Course assignment instructions and guidelines
walkthrough/	Demo video showcasing system functionality

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Project Layers & Dependencies

CinemaData (Data Layer)

• Target Framework: .NET 6.0
• Packages:
  • AutoMapper 12.0.1
  • Entity Framework Core 7.0 (SQL Server provider)
  • EF Core Tools and Design packages
  • AutoMapper Dependency Injection & Expression Mapping

Responsibilities:

• Defining entity models and relationships
• Database migrations
• ORM-based CRUD operations

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CinemaStore (API Layer)

• Target Framework: .NET 6.0 Web API
• Packages:
  • AutoMapper
  • MailKit (email notifications)
  • Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity.EntityFrameworkCore
  • JWT Authentication
  • EF Core (SQL Server)
  • Swashbuckle (Swagger/OpenAPI)

Responsibilities:

• Exposing API endpoints for the front-end
• Business logic services for Users, Movies, Reservations, Halls
• DTO mapping using AutoMapper
• Payment & email integration

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CinemaStoreIntegrationTests

• Target Framework: .NET 6.0
• Packages:
  • xUnit
  • Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk
  • Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Testing
  • Coverlet for code coverage

Responsibilities:

• End-to-end integration testing of API controllers
• Validates the interaction between API layer and database

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Development Practices

• Dependency Injection: Used throughout all business services and controllers
• ORM Usage: Entity Framework Core (DbContext, Migrations, Fluent API)
• CRUD & REST: Full CRUD operations implemented for all main entities
• Integration Testing: Automated tests to verify controller endpoints and business logic
• Project Management: Organized in sprints with user stories on Trello: Project Board

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Team

Role	Members
Back-End	2 developers
Front-End	2 developers

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Usage

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/Preze-Cinemas-Web/Back-end.git

2. Open solution in Visual Studio 2022 and restore NuGet packages.
3. Update the appsettings.json with your SQL Server connection string.
4. Run migrations to create the database:

dotnet ef database update --project CinemaData/CinemaData.csproj

5. Start the API:

dotnet run --project CinemaStore/CinemaStore.csproj

Access API documentation (Swagger) at:

https://localhost:7236/swagger/index.html

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Related Repositories

Preze Cinemas Front-End