Spring Boot Controller

@Controller

A simple version to annotate a class as controller

• You need to annotate @ResponseBody in front of the return type of member function.

@Controller
@RequestMapping("books")
public class SimpleBookController {
    @GetMapping("/{id}", produces = "application/json")
    public @ResponseBody Book getBook(@PathVariable int id) {

    }
}

@RestController

Is a specialised version of the controller. It includes the @Controller and @ResponseBody annotation.

• No need to annotate return type with @ResponseBody

@RestController
@RequestMapping("books-rest")
public class SimpleBookRestController {

    @GetMapping("/{id}", produces = "application/json")
    public Book getBook(@PathVariable int id) {

    }
}

@RequestMapping

Helps the server to route requests to the controller classes specified in string parameter

@RequestMapping(
  value = "/ex/foos", 
  method = RequestMethod.GET, 
  produces = "application/json"
)

• Fallback for all requests that didn't match

@RequestMapping(value = "*", method = RequestMethod.GET)

@RequestBody

@RequestBody annotation maps the HttpRequest body to a transfer or domain object, enabling automatic de-serialisation. Spring automatically de-serialises the JSON into a Java type

@GetMapping("/{id}", produces = "application/json")
public @ResponseBody Book getBook(@PathVariable int id) 
{

}

@PathVariable

Used endpoint that identifies an entity with a primary key:

@GetMapping("/api/{id}")
public String getEmployeesById(@PathVariable String id) 
{

}

@PathVariable

Can be used to handle template variables in the request URI mapping

@GetMapping("/api/employees/{id}")
@ResponseBody
public String getEmployeesById(@PathVariable("id") String id) {
    return "ID: " + id;
}

-- Multiple PathVariable

@GetMapping("/api/employees/{id}/{name}")
@ResponseBody
public String getEmployeesByIdAndName(
    @PathVariable String id, @PathVariable String name) 
{

}

-- Capture PathVariable in MapString

@GetMapping("/api/employeeswithmapvariable/{id}/{name}")
@ResponseBody
public String getEmployeesById(
    @PathVariable Map<String, String> pathVarsMap) 
{

}


-- when PathVariable isnt required 

@GetMapping(value = { "employees/", "employees/{id}" })
@ResponseBody
public String getEmployeesById(@PathVariable(required = false) String id) 
{

}

@RequestParam

@PostMapping("/api/foos")
@ResponseBody
public String addFoo(@RequestParam(name = "id") String fooId, @RequestParam String name) 
{ 

}

http://localhost:8080/api/foos?id=1&name=uday

-- Multiple RequestParam 
@GetMapping("/api/foos")
@ResponseBody
public String getFoos(@RequestParam List<String> id) {

}

http://localhost:8080/api/foos?id=1,2,3

HTTP Mapping

-- @GetMapping("/get")

public @ResponseBody ResponseEntity<String> get() {
    return new ResponseEntity<String>("GET Response", HttpStatus.OK);
}

-- @PostMapping
@PostMapping("/post")
public @ResponseBody ResponseEntity<String> post() {
    return new ResponseEntity<String>("POST Response", HttpStatus.OK);
}

-- @PutMapping
@PutMapping("/put")
public @ResponseBody ResponseEntity<String> put() {
    return new ResponseEntity<String>("PUT Response", HttpStatus.OK);
}
-- @DeleteMapping
@DeleteMapping("/delete")
public @ResponseBody ResponseEntity<String> delete() {
    return new ResponseEntity<String>("DELETE Response", HttpStatus.OK);
}

-- @PatchMapping
@PatchMapping("/patch")
public @ResponseBody ResponseEntity<String> patch() {
    return new ResponseEntity<String>("PATCH Response", HttpStatus.OK);
}

@ResponseEntity

ResponseEntity represents the whole HTTP response: status code, headers, and body. As a result, we can use it to fully configure the HTTP response.

• mention the return type of a function as ResponseEntity<T>, cannot be null
• takes
• HTTPStatusCode
• Object to be returned

@GetMapping("/hello")
ResponseEntity<String> hello() {
    return new ResponseEntity<>("Hello World!", HttpStatus.OK);
}