This tutorial walks you through the process of creating a RESTful API Example with Spring Boot, Spring Data REST, Spring Data JPA and Hibernate Many To Many Relationship and MySQL.
What you'll need
- JDK 1.7+
- Maven 3+
- MySQL Server 5.6+
Stack
- Spring Boot
- Spring Data REST
- Spring Data JPA
- MySQL
Init project structure and dependencies
Project structure
├── src
│ └── main
│ ├── java
│ │ └── com
│ │ └── hellokoding
│ │ └── restfulapi
│ │ ├── Application.java
│ │ ├── model
│ │ │ ├── Author.java
│ │ │ └── Book.java
│ │ └── repository
│ │ ├── AuthorRepository.java
│ │ └── BookRepository.java
│ └── resources
│ └── application.properties
└── pom.xml
Project dependencies
Define JPA Entities and Repositories
Create domain objects
Spring Data Repository
Spring Data JPA and Spring Data Rest will auto create some helper methods and RESTful APIs. For this example, we only need to extend JpaRepository
Config and Run
Application Properties
Run the application
Type mvn clean spring-boot:run on terminal at the project root directory to run
Test the application
Create a new book
curl -i -X POST -H "Content-Type:application/json" -d "{\"title\" : \"Hello Koding\", \"description\": \"Simple coding examples and tutorials\"}" http://localhost:8080/books
Create a new author
curl -i -X POST -H "Content-Type:application/json" -d "{\"name\":\"Author 1\"}" http://localhost:8080/authors
Assign the author to the book
curl -i -X PUT -H "Content-Type:text/uri-list" -d "http://localhost:8080/authors/1" http://localhost:8080/books/1/authors