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Spring REST and HAL Browser 1. Overview In this tutorial, we’ll be discussing what HAL is and why it’s useful, before introducing the HAL browser. We’ll then use Spring to build a simple REST API with a few interesting endpoints and populate our database with some test data. Finally, using… Continue Reading spring-rest-hal
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REST API With Kotlin and Kovert 1. Introduction Kovert is a REST API framework that is strongly opinionated, and thus very easy to get started with. It leverages the power of Vert.x but makes it significantly easier to develop applications consistently. It’s possible for us to write a Kovert API… Continue Reading kotlin-kovert
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Set a Response Body in JAX-RS ** 1. Overview To simplify the development of REST web services and their clients in Java, a standard and portable implementation of JAX-RS API has been designed which is called Jersey. Jersey is an open source framework for developing REST web services that provide… Continue Reading jax-rs-response
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REST API Testing with Cucumber 1. Overview This tutorial gives an introduction to Cucumber, a commonly used tool for user acceptance testing, and how to use it in REST API tests. In addition, to make the article self-contained and independent of any external REST services, we will use WireMock, a… Continue Reading cucumber-rest-api-testing
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Validating Lists in a Spring Controller 1. Introduction Validating user inputs is a common requirement in any application. In this tutorial, we’ll go over ways to validate a List of objects as a parameter to a Spring controller. We’ll add validation in the controller layer to ensure that the user-specified… Continue Reading spring-validate-list-controller
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Pagination with Spring REST and AngularJS table 1. Overview In this article, we will mainly focus on implementing server side pagination in a Spring REST API and a simple AngularJS front-end. We’ll also explore a commonly used table grid in Angular named UI Grid. 2. Dependencies Here we detail various… Continue Reading pagination-with-a-spring-rest-api-and-an-angularjs-table
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Rate Limiting Access to the Reddit API 1. Overview In this quick article we’re going to continue improving our small Reddit app by rate limiting the way it has access to the live Reddit API. The simple idea is that we want to make sure we don’t hit their API… Continue Reading rate-limit-access-to-the-reddit-api
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Metrics for your Spring REST API 1. Overview In this tutorial, we’ll integrate basic Metrics into a Spring REST API. We’ll build out the metric functionality first using simple Servlet Filters, then using a Spring Boot Actuator. 2. The web.xml Let’s start by registering a filter – “MetricFilter” – into… Continue Reading spring-rest-api-metrics
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REST Pagination in Spring 1. Overview This tutorial will focus on the implementation of pagination in a REST API, using Spring MVC and Spring Data. Further reading: Pagination with Spring REST and AngularJS table An extensive look at how to implement a simple API with pagination with Spring and how… Continue Reading rest-api-pagination-in-spring
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Spring MVC Content Negotiation 1. Overview This article describes how to implement content negotiation in a Spring MVC project. Generally, there are three options to determine the media type of a request: Using URL suffixes (extensions) in the request (eg .xml/.json) Using URL parameter in the request (eg ?format=json) Using… Continue Reading spring-mvc-content-negotiation-json-xml
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