This guide will help you create a TODO***.
You will learn
- What?
- Why?
- How?
- Where?
- When?
Resources/URLs/Entities Overview
In this guide, we will create three services using proper URIs and HTTP methods:
Project Code Structure
Following screenshot shows the structure of the project we will create.
A few details:
- SpringBootTutorialBasicsApplication.java - The Spring Boot Application class generated with Spring Initializer. This class acts as the launching point for application.
pom.xml- Contains all the dependencies needed to build this project. We will use Spring Boot Starter AOP.
Tools you will need
- Maven 3.0+ is your build tool
- Your favorite IDE. We use Eclipse.
- JDK 1.8+
Complete Maven Project With Code Examples
Our Github repository has all the code examples - https://github.com/in28minutes/spring-boot-examples/tree/master/TODO_URL
Article Begins
Some theory
Bootstrapping with Spring Initializr
Creating a REST service with Spring Initializr is a cake walk. We will use Spring Web MVC as our web framework.
Spring Initializr http://start.spring.io/ is great tool to bootstrap your Spring Boot projects.
As shown in the image above, following steps have to be done
- Launch Spring Initializr and choose the following
- Choose
TODOas Group - Choose
TODOas Artifact - Choose following dependencies
- Web
- DevTools
- TODO
- Choose
- Click Generate Project.
- Import the project into Eclipse. File -> Import -> Existing Maven Project.
- If you want to understand all the files that are part of this project, you can go here TODO.
STEP 1 : TODO
Step N : Executing the TODO Service
Below picture shows how we can execute this Get Service from Postman - my favorite tool to run rest services.
Executing a POST Rest Service
Example Request is shown below.
Below picture shows how we can execute this Post Service from Postman - my favorite tool to run rest services. Make sure you go to the Body tab and select raw. Select JSON from the dropdown. Copy above request into body.
Complete Code Example
- TODO
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