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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 2 – Spring Concepts and REST APIs

  1. By using the @Scope annotation as shown:
    @Scope(ConfigurableBeanFactory.SCOPE_PROTOTYPE)
  2. Beans defined using the Singleton scope instantiate only once per Spring container. The same instance is injected every time it is requested. Whereas a container creates a new instance each time for beans defined with the prototype scope when the injection is done by the Spring container for the requested bean. In short, a container creates a single bean per container for a singleton-scoped bean; whereas a container creates a new instance each time for a new injection for prototype-scoped beans.
  3. Session and request scopes only work when a web-aware Spring context is used. Other scopes that also need a web-aware context to work are application and WebSocket scopes.
  4. Advice is an action taken by the Aspect at a specific time (JoinPoint). Aspects perform the additional logic (advice) at a certain point (JoinPoint), such as a method being...