Spring REST

Spring REST is a practical guide for designing and developing RESTful APIs using the Spring Framework. This book walks you through the process of designing and building a REST application while taking a deep dive into design principles and best practices for versioning, security, documentation, error handling, paging, and sorting.

This book provides a brief introduction to REST, HTTP, and web infrastructure. You will learn about several Spring projects such as Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data JPA, and Spring Security and the role they play in simplifying REST application development. You will learn how to build clients that consume REST services. Finally, you will learn how to use the Spring MVC test framework to unit test and integration test your REST API.

After reading this book, you will come away with all the skills to build sophisticated REST applications using Spring technologies.

1. Introduction to REST

2. Spring MVC Primer

3. RESTful Spring

4. Beginning the QuickPoll Application

5. Error Handling

6. Documenting REST Services

7. Versioning, Paging, and Sorting

8. Security

9. Clients and Testing

10. HATEOAS

Appendix: Installing cURL on Windows