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Modern API Development with Spring 6 and Spring Boot 3

You're reading from   Modern API Development with Spring 6 and Spring Boot 3 Design scalable, viable, and reactive APIs with REST, gRPC, and GraphQL using Java 17 and Spring Boot 3

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804613276
Length 494 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Sourabh Sharma Sourabh Sharma
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1 – RESTful Web Services
2. Chapter 1: RESTful Web Service Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Spring Concepts and REST APIs 4. Chapter 3: API Specifications and Implementation 5. Chapter 4: Writing Business Logic for APIs 6. Chapter 5: Asynchronous API Design 7. Part 2 – Security, UI, Testing, and Deployment
8. Chapter 6: Securing REST Endpoints Using Authorization and Authentication 9. Chapter 7: Designing a User Interface 10. Chapter 8: Testing APIs 11. Chapter 9: Deployment of Web Services 12. Part 3 – gRPC, Logging, and Monitoring
13. Chapter 10: Getting Started with gRPC 14. Chapter 11: gRPC API Development and Testing 15. Chapter 12: Adding Logging and Tracing to Services 16. Part 4 – GraphQL
17. Chapter 13: Getting Started with GraphQL 18. Chapter 14: GraphQL API Development and Testing 19. Index 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Writing fetchers for GraphQL queries

You are going to write data fetchers in this section. Data fetchers, as the name suggests, retrieve the information from the source that is from a persistent store such as a database or a third-party API/document store. You will learn how to write data fetchers to retrieve a single field of data, a single object, and a collection of objects.

Writing the data fetcher for product

The data fetcher is a critical DSG component for serving GraphQL requests that fetches the data and the DSG internally resolves each of the fields. You mark them with the special @DgsComponent DGS annotation. These are types of Spring components that the DGS framework scans and uses for serving requests.

Let’s create a new file called ProductDatafetcher.java in the datafetchers package to represent a DGS data fetcher component. It will have a data fetcher method for serving the product query. You can add the following code to it:

@DgsComponentpublic class...
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