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REST API with Play Framework in Java 1. Overview The purpose of this tutorial is to explore the Play Framework and learn how to build REST services with it using Java. We’ll put together a REST API to create, retrieve, update, and delete student records. In such applications, we would… Continue Reading rest-api-with-play
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RESTEasy Client API 1. Introduction In the previous article we focused on the RESTEasy server side implementation of JAX-RS 2.0. JAX-RS 2.0 introduces a new client API so that you can make HTTP requests to your remote RESTful web services. Jersey, Apache CXF, Restlet and RESTEasy are only a subset… Continue Reading resteasy-client-tutorial
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Generate Spring Boot REST Client with Swagger 1. Introduction In this article, we’ll use the Swagger CodeGen project to generate a REST client from an OpenAPI/Swagger spec file. Also, we’ll create a Spring Boot project, where we’ll use generated classes. We’ll use the Swagger Petstore API example for everything. 2.… Continue Reading spring-boot-rest-client-swagger-codegen
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Retry to Submit to Reddit a Post Without Enough Traction 1. Overview Posting to Reddit is a crap shoot. One post may do great and get a whole lot of attention while another, maybe better post will get no love at all. What about keeping an eye on these posts… Continue Reading reddit-retry-to-submit-inactive-post
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A User Profile in the Reddit App 1. Overview In this article we’re going to be building a Profile for the user of our Reddit application – to allow them to configure user specific preferences. The goal is simple – instead of having the user fill in the same data… Continue Reading reddit-app-user-profile
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Testing the API of the Reddit App 1. Overview We’ve been building out the REST API of our simple Reddit App for a while now – it’s time to get serious and start testing it. And now that we finally switched to a simpler authentication mechanism, it’s easier to do… Continue Reading reddit-app-test-the-rest-api
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Setting Up Swagger 2 with a Spring REST API 1. Overview When creating a REST API, good documentation is instrumental. Moreover, every change in the API should be simultaneously described in the reference documentation. Accomplishing this manually is a tedious exercise, so automation of the process was inevitable. In this… Continue Reading swagger-2-documentation-for-spring-rest-api
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Test a REST API with curl 1. Overview This tutorial gives a brief overview of testing a REST API using curl. curl is a command-line tool for transferring data and supports about 22 protocols including HTTP. This combination makes it a very good ad-hoc tool for testing our REST… Continue Reading curl-rest
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Eliminate Redundancies in RAML with Resource Types and Traits REST RAML 1. Overview In our RAML tutorial article, we introduced the RESTful API Modeling Language and created a simple API definition based on a single entity called Foo. Now imagine a real-world API in which you have several entity-type resources,… Continue Reading simple-raml-with-resource-types-and-traits
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Error Handling for REST with Spring 1. Overview This article will illustrate how to implement Exception Handling with Spring for a REST API. We’ll also get a bit of historical overview and see which new options the different versions introduced. Before Spring 3.2, the two main approaches to handling exceptions… Continue Reading exception-handling-for-rest-with-spring
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