Introduction to REST and Spring Boot

Debbie Roycroft @DebbieRoycroft

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REST and Spring Boot

Overview of REST

Introduction to Spring Boot

Demonstration

What is REST

• Used for webservices
• Principle rather than protocol
• Stateless - does not rely on sessions

Levels of REST

• RPC
• Resources
• HTTP Verbs
• Hypermedia Controls

REST APIs - Resources

• Object orientated
• Nouns rather than verbs

REST APIs - Http Verbs

• GET, POST, PUT, DELETE +
• Not quite the same as CRUD
• Know which methods are Safe vs Unsafe
• Know which methods are idempotent

REST APIs - Hypermedia Controls

• HATEOAS
• Links and relations in API

Spring Boot

• Quick start for developing Spring Framework applications
• Pick parts of Spring Framework as needed
• Convention over configuration
• Customisable
• Tooling in Eclipse Spring Tool Suite(STS)

Tutorial

Instructions

http://debbieroycroft.github.io/rest-tutorial

Code

https://github.com/DebbieRoycroft/rest-tutorial/