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Best practice: slightly different logic on multi mapping endpoint
Suppose I've got a spring controller as follows: ⋮ @RestController public class MyController { ⋮ @PostMapping(value = { "publicAPI/addItem", "internalAPI/addItem" }) ...
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How to format request and response
I am new to backend REST API development. I am creating the CRUD APIs for books using spring boot. I have a model class lets say 'user'. It will have many fields, like id, name, email, status, ...
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How can I avoid duplicate annotations when validating both Entity and DTOs?
I am using the Spring Boot framework to create a RESTFUL API and I need a way to avoid the duplication of validation rules when using multiple DTOs as request/response objects for my endpoints. Using ...
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Best practices for API design for an E-Commerce System
I have a few basic questions on how to implement an API for a basic e-commerce system. The relevant entities are Customer, Puffle, and Review. Each Puffle can have zero or more Reviews. Each Review is ...
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Am I understanding OAuth2 correctly and is what I am trying to achieve possible?
I am creating a web application which has three distinct components as far as I understand. A Nuxt frontend, and Spring Boot backend and Google OAuth2 for authentication using OpenID Connect. Nuxt can ...
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Frontend/backend SPA communication: how to handle a list of string options
I have single page application with an Angular frontend and a Spring REST-backend. What is the proper way to handle a list of string-based options in the fronted the enduser can select from, which ...
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Using JWT token to create spring session
I have a web application like this: An angular frontend for client and a spring MVC backend for admin panel. A angular web application requests a JWT token from tomcat/spring MVC. The angular ...
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How can I design a secure content verification web application?
In my country, there is a high number of fraudulent doctor's sick letter as they are manually written on paper. I'm designing a web application to combat this issue and have the whole process ...
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Handling OAuth 2.0 access token
I am creating a rest template to consume REST API secured by OAuth 2.0. The provider has implemented an expiry for the access token for 5 mins. So Using the rest template, I will be calling the ...
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Is this a good design for wrapping asynchronous API calls into a RESTful interface?
I'm working with an API that has many asynchronous calls and handlers. I'd like to extend these with a RESTful interface and endpoints in spring. I'm imagining the usual Controller and Service layers, ...
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What is the best practice to insert two similar records in sql server db table which will be sent to two different destinations?
I am working on parsing a file and inserting records into SQL Server DB.The database table structure will be something like this: A Users table which contains (id, name, address, destinationName,...
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Pattern for for REST API who's response depends on behavior of requests to other services
Some one help me with my design paralysis! Assume a microservice (probably going to be implemented in Spring Boot) that has implemented an run of the mill REST API, and after receiving an initial ...
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dealing with too many DTO / Java
We are building an pseudo-rest API (because no body cares/funds for a full blown rest API for internal use - which is OK). So we have elements of Rest API (links for resources, API naming conventions ...
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How to make rest api end points in swagger UI pre authenticated in Spring BOOT [closed]
I have written a spring boot rest API application with OAuth.I have integrated swagger UI for API documentation. I want the API endpoints on swagger UI to be accessible without an access token. This ...
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Returning JPA Entities in Rest Api's?
Recently Ive seen so many devs working with the stack Spring/JPA and returning all these JPA entities on their rest controllers. In my opinion it's a BAD PRACTICE for several reason such: ...
