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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

Chapter 14: GraphQL API Development and Testing

You will learn about GraphQL-based API development and its testing in this chapter. You will implement GraphQL-based APIs for a sample application in this chapter. GraphQL server implementation will be developed based on a design-first approach, the way you defined the OpenAPI specification in Chapter 3, API Specifications and Implementation, and designed the schema in Chapter 11, gRPC-based API Development and Testing.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Workflow and tooling
  • Implementing the GraphQL server
  • Documenting APIs
  • Test automation

After completing this chapter, you will have learned how to practically implement the GraphQL concepts learned in the previous chapter and the implementation of the GraphQL server using Java and Spring and its testing.