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Building a RESTful Web Service with Spring

You're reading from   Building a RESTful Web Service with Spring A hands-on guide to building an enterprise-grade, scalable RESTful web service using the Spring Framework

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785285714
Length 128 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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REST and the MVC pattern

The Spring Web MVC module provides an implementation of the traditional Model View Controller pattern. While REST does not mandate the use of any specific pattern, using the MVC pattern is quite a natural fit whereby the RESTful resource or model is exposed through a controller. The view in our case will be a JSON representation of the model.

Without further ado, let's take a look at our first endpoint:

@RestController
@RequestMapping("/rooms")
public class RoomsResource {

  private final InventoryService inventoryService;

  public RoomsResource(InventoryService inventoryService) {
    this.inventoryService = inventoryService;
  }

  @RequestMapping(value = "/{roomId}", method = RequestMethod.GET)
  public RoomDTO getRoom(@PathVariable("roomId") String roomId) {
    RoomDTO room = ...
    // omitted for sake of clarity
    return room;
  }
}

With the use of @org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController, we instruct Spring...

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