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Hands-On Microservices with Kotlin

By : Juan Antonio Medina Iglesias
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Hands-On Microservices with Kotlin

By: Juan Antonio Medina Iglesias

Overview of this book

With Google's inclusion of first-class support for Kotlin in their Android ecosystem, Kotlin's future as a mainstream language is assured. Microservices help design scalable, easy-to-maintain web applications; Kotlin allows us to take advantage of modern idioms to simplify our development and create high-quality services. With 100% interoperability with the JVM, Kotlin makes working with existing Java code easier. Well-known Java systems such as Spring, Jackson, and Reactor have included Kotlin modules to exploit its language features. This book guides the reader in designing and implementing services, and producing production-ready, testable, lean code that's shorter and simpler than a traditional Java implementation. Reap the benefits of using the reactive paradigm and take advantage of non-blocking techniques to take your services to the next level in terms of industry standards. You will consume NoSQL databases reactively to allow you to create high-throughput microservices. Create cloud-native microservices that can run on a wide range of cloud providers, and monitor them. You will create Docker containers for your microservices and scale them. Finally, you will deploy your microservices in OpenShift Online.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Working with JSON

So far, our APIs have been working using JSON, from return JSON objects as results, to accepting JSON objects in the body of the request. But we need to understand how this works and how we can create and use more complicated JSON objects. In this section, we will review the different mechanisms that Spring provides to handle our JSON requests and responses.

Understanding serialization

In our examples, we have created the Customer class and we have seen that returning an object of that class in our controller, either directly or through a response entity, it will get converted into JSON. This mechanism is known as serialization, converting an object into a representation, in our case, a JSON object.

Spring...