Book Image

Modern API Development with Spring 6 and Spring Boot 3 - Second Edition

By : Sourabh Sharma
1 (1)
Book Image

Modern API Development with Spring 6 and Spring Boot 3 - Second Edition

1 (1)
By: Sourabh Sharma

Overview of this book

Spring is a powerful and widely adopted framework for building scalable and reliable web applications in Java, complemented by Spring Boot, a popular extension to the framework that simplifies the setup and configuration of Spring-based applications. This book is an in-depth guide to harnessing Spring 6 and Spring Boot 3 for web development, offering practical knowledge of building modern robust web APIs and services. The book covers a wide range of topics that are essential for API development, including RESTful web service fundamentals, Spring concepts, and API specifications. It also explores asynchronous API design, security, designing user interfaces, testing APIs, and the deployment of web services. In addition to its comprehensive coverage, this book offers a highly contextual real-world sample app that you can use as a reference for building different types of APIs for real-world applications. This sample app will lead you through the entire API development cycle, encompassing design and specification, implementation, testing, and deployment. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to design, develop, test, and deploy scalable and maintainable modern APIs using Spring 6 and Spring Boot 3, along with best practices for bolstering the security and reliability of your applications and improving your application's overall functionality.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Part 1 – RESTful Web Services
7
Part 2 – Security, UI, Testing, and Deployment
12
Part 3 – gRPC, Logging, and Monitoring
16
Part 4 – GraphQL

Handling errors and error status codes

Unlike REST, which makes use of the HTTP status codes, gRPC uses a Status model, which contains its error codes and optional error message (string).

If you remember, you have used the special class called Error to contain the error details because HTTP error codes contain limited information. Similarly, the gRPC error Status model is limited to code and an optional message (string). You don't have sufficient error details for the client to use to handle the error or retry. You can make use of the richer error model as described at https://cloud.google.com/apis/design/errors#error_model, which allows you to pass detailed error information back to the client. You can also find the error models in the next code block for quick reference:

package google.rpc;message Status {
  // actual error code is defined by `google.rpc.Code`.
  int32 code = 1;
  // A developer-facing human-readable error message
 &...