In this tutorial, you will learn how to deal with an infinite recursion problem or circular reference, which occurs when you try to return an Object with Bidirectional Relationships in the HTTP response body. Infinite Recursion Problem Let’s look at an example that will cause an Infinite Recursion problem in our RESTful Web Service when we…
Read More Infinite Recursion in Objects with Bidirectional RelationshipsThis short tutorial will teach you how to roll back a database change using @Transactional annotation in your RESTful Web Service built with Spring Boot and JPA. Rollback with @Transactional Annotation Sometimes if an error occurs in our RESTful Web Service, we want to roll back the changes made. For changes to be rolled back…
Read More Rollback Using @Transactional in Spring with JPAIn this blog post, I am going to list commonly used POM.XML dependencies for building RESTful Web services with Spring Boot and Spring MVC. The list of below dependencies is not complete and will depend on the functionality you need your RESTful Web Services to support. But if you are building a simple REST API…
Read More Common POM.XML Dependencies for RESTful Web ServicesWhen building RESTful Web Services we often need to add additional functionality to our project. For example, our application might need to work with a database or be able to cache data or work with LDAP or MongoDB. For our application be able to work with LDAP or MongoDB there are third-party libraries which we…
Read More A List of Spring Boot StartersThe list of below video tutorials is a Quick Start to learning How to Build RESTful Web Services with Spring Framework. Spring Framework is large and there is so much to learn about it. And although there are so many tutorials on the Internet I still felt it would be helpful to create a series…
Read More RESTful Web Services with Spring Framework. Video TutorialsIn this tutorial on Rest Assured, I am going to share with you how to create a test case which sends HTTP Get Request and includes two Query String Request Parameters. Let’s assume we need to test a RESTful Web Service Endpoint which returns a list of users. The URL to our RESTful Web Service…
Read More Rest Assured HTTP Request with Query ParametersIn this tutorial, you will learn how to validate the request body of an HTTP Post request sent to a RESTful Web Service endpoint built with Spring Boot. Request Body JSON Let’s say you have a RESTful Web Service endpoint that accepts HTTP post requests with the following JSON payload: { “firstName”: “Sergey”, “lastName”: “Kargopolov”,…
Read More Validate Request Body in RESTful Web ServiceIn this tutorial, you will learn how to make a method in your Rest Controller class return a custom HTTP status code. To return a specific HTTP status code from a Spring Controller method in your application, you can use the ResponseEntity class. ResponseEntity with HTTP Status Code Let’s assume we have a simple web…
Read More Return Custom HTTP Status from Spring ControllerIn this JUnit 5 and Rest Assured tutorial, I am going to share with you how to add JUnit 5 and Rest Assured support to your Spring Boot project. It will be more than that actually. This tutorial will cover: Add JUnit 5 and Rest Assured to Spring Boot Project, Create a new JUnit 5…
Read More Create a JUnit 5 Test Case with Rest Assured. Video Tutorial.If your mobile or web app allows the user to register and have an account with your project then you also need to let users recover their lost or forgotten password. And in this video tutorial, I am going to share with you a few videos that will help you implement Password Reset functionality in your…
Read More Password Reset in REST API. Video tutorial.In this short tutorial, I am going to share with you how to enable CrossOrigin in a RESTful Web Service API built with Spring Boot that also has Spring Security enabled. Enable CrossOrigin for Specific Endpoint To enable cross-origin AJAX HTTP requests to a specific RESTful Web Service endpoint in our Rest Controller class we can use…
Read More CrossOrigin and CORS in RESTful Web ServiceIn this tutorial, we will create a Spring Boot application which demonstrates how we can add and use the H2 in-memory database in our application. You will learn how an in-memory database like H2 can be used to develop a Spring boot application without the overhead of doing DB configuration on your machine and without…
Read More Using H2 In-memory Database in Spring BootThis REST Assured tutorial will teach you how to make an HTTP POST request and validate the Response. To break it into more detail, you will learn: Make HTTP Post requests with REST Assured, Create JSON Object using the com.google.gson library, Send JSON payload in the body of HTTP Post request, Validate the Response Read the…
Read More REST Assured HTTP Post RequestIn this tutorial, you will learn how to retrieve the HTTP header value from an HTTP response while testing your RESTful API using REST Assured. What are HTTP Headers? HTTP headers are a fundamental part of the HTTP protocol, which is the protocol used to transfer data over the web. An HTTP header is a…
Read More Read HTTP Header with REST AssuredIn this short tutorial on REST Assured you will learn how to get the entire HTTP Response Body when testing your RESTful Web Service Endpoint. Web Service Endpoint Response Let’s assume we have the following Web Service Endpoint URL and when HTTP GET request is made to this Web Service Endpoint a JSON representation of…
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