When building RESTful Web Services we often need to add additional functionality to our project. For example, our application might need to work with a database or be able to cache data or work with LDAP or MongoDB. For our application be able to work with LDAP or MongoDB there are third-party libraries which we…
Read More A List of Spring Boot StartersThe list of below video tutorials is a Quick Start to learning How to Build RESTful Web Services with Spring Framework. Spring Framework is large and there is so much to learn about it. And although there are so many tutorials on the Internet I still felt it would be helpful to create a series…
Read More RESTful Web Services with Spring Framework. Video TutorialsIn this tutorial on Rest Assured, I am going to share with you how to create a test case which sends HTTP Get Request and includes two Query String Request Parameters. Let’s assume we need to test a RESTful Web Service Endpoint which returns a list of users. The URL to our RESTful Web Service…
Read More Rest Assured HTTP Request with Query ParametersIn this tutorial, you will learn how to validate the request body of an HTTP Post request sent to a RESTful Web Service endpoint built with Spring Boot. Request Body JSON Let’s say you have a RESTful Web Service endpoint that accepts HTTP post requests with the following JSON payload: { “firstName”: “Sergey”, “lastName”: “Kargopolov”,…
Read More Validate Request Body in RESTful Web ServiceIn this tutorial, you will learn how to make a method in your Rest Controller class return a custom HTTP status code. To return a specific HTTP status code from a Spring Controller method in your application, you can use the ResponseEntity class. ResponseEntity with HTTP Status Code Let’s assume we have a simple web…
Read More Return Custom HTTP Status from Spring ControllerIn this JUnit 5 and Rest Assured tutorial, I am going to share with you how to add JUnit 5 and Rest Assured support to your Spring Boot project. It will be more than that actually. This tutorial will cover: Add JUnit 5 and Rest Assured to Spring Boot Project, Create a new JUnit 5…
Read More Create a JUnit 5 Test Case with Rest Assured. Video Tutorial.In this short Java tutorial, I am going to share with you one of the ways you can use to add hours to a Java Date object and then compare that Date object with another date if needed. Add Hours to Java Date Object You can use the Instant and Duration objects to add a few hours…
Read More Add Hours to Java Date and Compare DatesIf your mobile or web app allows the user to register and have an account with your project then you also need to let users recover their lost or forgotten password. And in this video tutorial, I am going to share with you a few videos that will help you implement Password Reset functionality in your…
Read More Password Reset in REST API. Video tutorial.In this short tutorial, I am going to share with you how to enable CrossOrigin in a RESTful Web Service API built with Spring Boot that also has Spring Security enabled. Enable CrossOrigin for Specific Endpoint To enable cross-origin AJAX HTTP requests to a specific RESTful Web Service endpoint in our Rest Controller class we can use…
Read More CrossOrigin and CORS in RESTful Web ServiceIn this tutorial, we will create a Spring Boot application which demonstrates how we can add and use the H2 in-memory database in our application. You will learn how an in-memory database like H2 can be used to develop a Spring boot application without the overhead of doing DB configuration on your machine and without…
Read More Using H2 In-memory Database in Spring BootThis tutorial will teach you how to build a Spring Boot application and access data in a MongoDB database using the MongoTemplate APIs. For MongoDB, we will use mLab, which provides MongoDB Database as a Service platform so that you don’t even have to install a MongoDB database on your computer. Also, at the end…
Read More Spring Boot and MongoTemplate Tutorial with MongoDBThis REST Assured tutorial will teach you how to make an HTTP POST request and validate the Response. To break it into more detail, you will learn: Make HTTP Post requests with REST Assured, Create JSON Object using the com.google.gson library, Send JSON payload in the body of HTTP Post request, Validate the Response Read the…
Read More REST Assured HTTP Post RequestIn this tutorial, you will learn how to retrieve the HTTP header value from an HTTP response while testing your RESTful API using REST Assured. What are HTTP Headers? HTTP headers are a fundamental part of the HTTP protocol, which is the protocol used to transfer data over the web. An HTTP header is a…
Read More Read HTTP Header with REST AssuredIn this short Java tutorial, you will learn how to quickly generate a serialVersionUID for a given class. Most Java IDEs provide a support for generating serialVersionUID automatically while some require you to install a plugin for you to generate this value. Generate SerialVersionUID for a Java Class There is a built-in command in JDK…
Read More How to Generate SerialVersionUIDIn this short tutorial on REST Assured you will learn how to get the entire HTTP Response Body when testing your RESTful Web Service Endpoint. Web Service Endpoint Response Let’s assume we have the following Web Service Endpoint URL and when HTTP GET request is made to this Web Service Endpoint a JSON representation of…
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