Building RESTful APIs
RESTful APIs are crucial in modern cloud apps for seamless data exchange, enabling interoperability, scalability, and efficient communication between services. Spring Boot simplifies RESTful authoring by providing a framework for quick, efficient development, auto-configuration, and integrated tools.
In this chapter, you will acquire the skills to create RESTful services and consume them seamlessly from other applications. You will also learn how to create automated tests for your RESTful APIs using the features provided by Spring Boot and other popular tools.
In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main recipes:
- Creating a RESTful API
- Defining responses and the data model exposed by the API
- Managing errors in a RESTful API
- Testing a RESTful API
- Using OpenAPI to document our RESTful API
- Consuming a RESTful API from another Spring Boot application using FeignClient
- Consuming a RESTful API from another Spring...