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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)
1
Section 1: RESTful Web Services
7
Section 2: Security, UI, Testing, and Deployment
12
Section 3: gRPC, Logging, and Monitoring
16
Section 4: GraphQL

Exploring the RPC life cycle

In the previous section, you learned about four types of service definitions. Each type of service definition has its own life cycle. Let's find out more about the life cycle of each service definition in this section.

The life cycle of unary RPC

Unary RPC is the simplest form of the service method. Both the client and the server send the single object. Let's find out how it works. Unary RPC is initiated by the client. The client calls a stub method. stub notifies the server that the RPC call has been invoked. stub also provides the server client's metadata, the method name, and the specified deadline, if applicable, with notification.

Metadata is data about the RPC call in the form of key-value pairs such as timeout and authentication details.

Next, in response, the server sends back its initial metadata. Whether the server sends initial metadata immediately or after receiving the client's request message depends on the...