Creating a RESTful API
A RESTful API is a standardized way for software components to communicate over the internet using HTTP methods and URLs. You should learn it because it’s fundamental for modern web and cloud application development. It promotes scalable, flexible, and stateless communication, enabling developers to design efficient and widely compatible systems. Understanding RESTful APIs is crucial for building and integrating services.
When I was a child I played with football-player cards, exchanging cards that I had multiples of with my friends. My children, some decades later, still play this game. Throughout this chapter, you will create a system to manage a football card-trading game, with teams, players, albums, and cards. In this recipe, you will create a RESTful API exposing Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD) operations on football players.
Getting ready
To create a RESTful API, Spring Boot provides a great tool named Spring Initializr. You can...
