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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 8 – Testing APIs

  1. Unit testing is done to test the smallest code unit, such as a method. Whereas integration testing is performed where either different layers are involved or multiple modules are involved. In this chapter, integration testing has been done for the entire application, which involves all the layers of the application, including the database, whereas unit testing is performed class-wise for each of the methods. In the context of this chapter, unit testing is white-box testing, whereas API integration testing is a kind of black-box testing because you verify the API's functional requirement.
  2. Having a separate unit and integration test, including their source location, allows you to manage tests easily. You can also have a configurable build setup that would perform unit testing during development or on-demand because unit tests are faster. You can run only unit tests by using the command gradlew clean build –x integrationTest, whereas...