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, 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.If 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 MongoDBIn this tutorial, you will learn how to implement pagination in your RESTful Web Services application built with Spring Boot. The code example below will demonstrate how to implement pagination for the API endpoint that returns a list of users. I assume you already have your Spring Boot RESTful Web Service built, but if you…
Read More Pagination Tutorial with Spring Boot RESTThis tutorial will teach you how to make your RESTful Spring Boot API endpoint respond with either XML or JSON representation. The client application can request our API endpoint to respond with JSON or XML by including a special HTTP Header called Accept. As a value, the Accept HTTP Header will have either application/json or application/xml. …
Read More Return XML or JSON in Spring Boot Web ServiceIn this Spring Boot REST tutorial, you will learn how to use the @PostMapping annotation to make your RESTful Web Service Endpoint able to handle HTTP Post requests and read its JSON or XML body payload. If you are also interested in using @GetMapping, @PutMapping and @DeleteMapping annotations, check the following tutorial “@PostMapping, @GetMapping, @PutMapping,…
Read More @PostMapping and @RequestBody Example in Spring Boot RESTIn this Spring Boot REST tutorial, you will learn how to use the @RequestParam annotation to read the URL Query request parameters in your Spring Boot Web Services application. I also include a video tutorial here, so you can see it in action. To learn how to read request parameters from the URL request path,…
Read More @RequestParam Example in Spring Boot RESTThis tutorial will teach you how to use a @PathVariable parameter to read the path parameter value. I will also include here a video tutorial so you can see how to do it on video. To learn how to read request parameters from a query string, read the @RequestParam example tutorial. Let’s say we have…
Read More @PathVariable Example in Spring Boot RESTWith this Spring Boot tutorial, I will share how to handle exceptions in your RESTful Web Service application build with Spring Boot. Read the “Handling Exceptions in Project Reactor” tutorial if you use a project reactor. And to learn how to test your code for Exceptions, read the “Test for Exceptions with the JUnit” tutorial. What…
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