Microsoft Cognitive Services API with Spring Boot

Consume Microsoft Cognitive Services API from Spring Boot application

Face API Demo

• Face API [1] example with age and emotion attributes:
  • Git clone
  • FaceAPIDemo/mvn clean install
  • java -jar target/FaceAPIDemo-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar --subscription.key=<key> --sample.url=<picture url> --face.attributes=<csv>
• UI mode: Just hit root deployment url (e.g. http://localhost:8080)
• API mode:
  • Make sure environment variables subscription.key, sample.url and face.attributes are populated
  • Hit /detect endpoint (e.g.http://localhost:8080/detect)
• Replace the placeholders in application.properties as required
• Deploy to Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF)
  • Launch cf cli from e.g. Azure Cloud Shell
  • cf push (sample manifest provided)
• User provided services to bind Congnitive Services to an app running in PCF:
  • create UPSI:
    • cf cups cognitive -p '{"key":"--- API key goes here ---"}'
  • bind the service to the app. Make sure to use cognitive as the service name for the binding to work:
    • cf bind-service face-api cognitive
  • restage the app
    • cf restage face-api

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/face/overview