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Learning Spring Boot 2.0 - Second Edition

By : Greg L. Turnquist, Greg L. Turnquist
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Learning Spring Boot 2.0 - Second Edition

By: Greg L. Turnquist, Greg L. Turnquist

Overview of this book

Spring Boot provides a variety of features that address today's business needs along with today's scalable requirements. In this book, you will learn how to leverage powerful databases and Spring Boot's state-of-the-art WebFlux framework. This practical guide will help you get up and running with all the latest features of Spring Boot, especially the new Reactor-based toolkit. The book starts off by helping you build a simple app, then shows you how to bundle and deploy it to the cloud. From here, we take you through reactive programming, showing you how to interact with controllers and templates and handle data access. Once you're done, you can start writing unit tests, slice tests, embedded container tests, and even autoconfiguration tests. We go into detail about developer tools, AMQP messaging, WebSockets, security, and deployment. You will learn how to secure your application using both routes and method-based rules. By the end of the book, you'll have built a social media platform from which to apply the lessons you have learned to any problem. If you want a good understanding of building scalable applications using the core functionality of Spring Boot, this is the book for you.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Creating a reactive repository

So far, we have been dabbling with Spring Data using our sample domain of employees. We need to shift our focus back to the social media platform that we started building in the previous chapter.

Before we can work on a reactive repository, we need to revisit the Image domain object we defined in the last chapter. Let's adjust it so that it works nicely with MongoDB:

    @Data 
    @Document 
    public class Image { 
 
      @Id final private String id; 
      final private String name; 
    } 

This preceding definition is almost identical to what we saw in the previous chapter, with the following differences:

  • We use @Document to identify this is a MongoDB domain object, but we accept Spring Data MongoDB's decision about what to name the collection (it's the short name of the class, lowercase, that is, image)
  • @Data creates a constructor...