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

Exploring Spring WebFlux

Existing Servlet APIs are blocking APIs. They use input and output streams, which block APIs. Servlet 3.0 containers evolve and use the underlying event loop. Async requests are processed asynchronously but read and write operations still use the input/output streams that are blocking. The Servlet 3.1 container evolves further and supports asynchronicity, and has the non-blocking I/O stream APIs. However, there are certain Servlet APIs, such as request.getParameters(), that parse the request body that is blocking and provide synchronous contracts such as Filter. The Spring MVC framework is based on the Servlet API and Servlet containers.

Therefore, Spring provides Spring WebFlux, which is fully non-blocking and provides back-pressure functionality. It provides concurrency with a small number of threads and scales with fewer hardware resources. WebFlux provides fluent, functional, and continuation-style APIs to support the declarative composition of asynchronous...