quiz-backend

Backend for the quiz app. Required to be self hosted. Currently configured to use PostgreSQL. Backend features:

1. On startup, quiz.txt available in the resources folder is put into the database. The file uses the following convention:

• First up is the question prompt, written on a single line.
• Next several lines are possible answers, the correct one must begin with *, only one correct answer is permitted per question
• Each individual question ("quiz item") is separated by an empty line

2. /get-quiz returns the whole quiz, i.e all of the questions in the database
3. /get-correct-answer/{id} returns the id of the correct answer for a given question

Currently, there is no way to make several different quizzes. In addition, no measures have been taken to avoid cheating for now, as /get-correct-answer is publicly available. To implement anti-cheat, one option could be to track user's progress on the backend instead of frontend and only provide the correct answer id after a question has been submitted

Uses Spring Boot as the backend framework and Spring Data JPA for database interaction

Demo