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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 4 – Writing Business Logic for APIs

  1. Repository classes are marked with @Repository, which is a specialized @Component that makes these classes auto-detected by package-level auto-scanning and makes them available for injection. Spring provides these classes especially for DDD repositories and Java EE Data Access Object (DAO). This is the layer used by the application for interacting with the database – retrieval and persistence as a central repository.
  2. It is possible to change the way models and APIs are generated. You have to copy the template that you want to modify and then place it under the resources folder. Then, you have to modify the swaggerSources block in the build.gradle file by adding an extra configuration parameter for pointing to the template source, such as templateDir = file("${rootDir}/src/main/resources/templates"). This is the place where you keep modified templates such as api.mustache. This will extend the Swagger Codegen...