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Modern API Development with Spring and Spring Boot

By : Sourabh Sharma
Book Image

Modern API Development with Spring and Spring Boot

By: Sourabh Sharma

Overview of this book

The philosophy of API development has evolved over the years to serve the modern needs of enterprise architecture, and developers need to know how to adapt to these modern API design principles. Apps are now developed with APIs that enable ease of integration for the cloud environment and distributed systems. With this Spring book, you'll discover various kinds of production-ready API implementation using REST APIs and explore async using the reactive paradigm, gRPC, and GraphQL. You'll learn how to design evolving REST-based APIs supported by HATEOAS and ETAGs and develop reactive, async, non-blocking APIs. After that, you'll see how to secure REST APIs using Spring Security and find out how the APIs that you develop are consumed by the app's UI. The book then takes you through the process of testing, deploying, logging, and monitoring your APIs. You'll also explore API development using gRPC and GraphQL and design modern scalable architecture with microservices. The book helps you gain practical knowledge of modern API implementation using a sample e-commerce app. By the end of this Spring book, you'll be able to develop, test, and deploy highly scalable, maintainable, and developer-friendly APIs to help your customers to transform their business.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Section 1: RESTful Web Services
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Section 2: Security, UI, Testing, and Deployment
12
Section 3: gRPC, Logging, and Monitoring
16
Section 4: GraphQL

Testing APIs and code manually

Testing is a continuous process in software development and maintenance cycles. You need to do full testing that covers all possible use cases and the respective code for each change. Different types of testing can be performed for APIs, including the following:

  • Unit testing: Unit testing is performed by the developers to test the smallest unit (such as a class method) of code.
  • Integration testing: Integration testing is performed by the developers to test the integration of different layers of components.
  • Contract testing: Contract testing is performed by the developers to make sure any changes that are made to the API won't break the consumer code. The consumer code should always comply with the producer's contract (API). It is primarily required in microservices-based development.
  • End-to-End (E2E) testing: E2E testing is performed by the Quality Assurance (QA) team to test end-to-end scenarios, such as from the UI (consumer...