PrinterSolution

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🎯 About

PrinterSolution is a distributed printing simulation system that demonstrates the integration between a Web API and a Console Application using RabbitMQ as a message broker. The system allows sending print commands through a REST API endpoint, which are then processed by a console application that simulates a remote printer.

✨ Features

✔️ REST API for receiving print requests;
✔️ Message queuing with RabbitMQ for reliable message delivery;
✔️ Console-based printer simulation;
✔️ Asynchronous message processing;
✔️ Scalable architecture for multiple printer support

🚀 Technologies

The following tools were used in this project:

• .NET Core
• RabbitMQ
• ASP.NET Web API
• Docker (for RabbitMQ container)
• Swagger/OpenAPI

💻 Architecture

The architecture of the PrinterSolution system consists of the following components:

• Web API: The Web API is responsible for receiving print requests through a REST API endpoint. It sends the print commands to the message queue using RabbitMQ.
• Console Printer App: The Console Printer App is responsible for processing print commands received from the message queue. It simulates a remote printer by printing the received messages.

The communication between the Web API and the Console Printer App is facilitated by RabbitMQ, a message broker. The Web API sends print commands to the message queue, and the Console Printer App consumes the messages from the queue.

✅ Requirements

Before starting 🏁, you need to have the following installed:

• .NET SDK
• Docker
• Git

🏁 Starting

# Clone this project
$ git clone https://github.com/lucaslab-dev/printersolution

# Access
$ cd printersolution

# Start RabbitMQ container
$ docker run -d --hostname my-rabbit --name some-rabbit \
  -p 5672:5672 -p 15672:15672 \
  -v rabbitmq_data:/var/lib/rabbitmq \
  rabbitmq:3-management

# Run the Web API (in one terminal)
$ cd WebAPI
$ dotnet run

# Run the Console Printer App (in another terminal)
$ cd PrinterConsole
$ dotnet run

# The Web API will be available at <http://localhost:5000>
# Swagger documentation can be accessed at <http://localhost:5000/swagger>
# RabbitMQ management interface will be at <http://localhost:15672>

📝 License

This project is under license from MIT. For more details, see the LICENSE file.

Made with ❤️ by Lucas Lab

 

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