Getting started with Spring Boot: Creating a simple movies list API.

• spring-boot-movies-api

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  A sample of making a movies API using Spring Boot following a set of best practices.

To make this code accessible for all of you, and insure its version, we'll be using git and GitHub, find all the code here : Github Repo

• initializr

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  A quickstart generator for Spring projects

  

Spring provides us with an Initialization suite that helps us start our project quicker than usual.

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• Lombok

  94 12,609 8.9 Java

  Very spicy additions to the Java programming language.

  

provides us with embedded constructors and accessors so we can reduce the written code. see more about the [Lombok project](https://projectlombok.org/). The ```@Entity``` is there to tell Spring Data that particular class should be represented as a table in our relational database. we call that process an ORM (Object Relational Mapping). So that our id won’t be duplicated, we will use a sequence, we put the ```@GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.SEQUENCE)``` there. ### Building the repository facade Simply, an interface that will inherit Spring Data JPA powers and handle the CRUD ORM operations on our behalf.

• insomnia

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  The open-source, cross-platform API client for GraphQL, REST, WebSockets, SSE and gRPC. With Cloud, Local and Git storage.

  

All we need to do next is to test what we build via a rest client, for this reason, I'm using [Insomnia](https://insomnia.rest/) : ##### The post end-point ##### The get end-point ##### The put end-point ##### The delete end-point And finally, testing the error scenario for some end-points. Let's try and save a movie with an existing id : Or delete a non-existing movie : ## Summary Spring Boot is a powerful apps making tool, takes away all the times consuming tasks and leaves you with the logical ones to handle. Don't get fouled, building APIs is not that easy, and from what I saw, that's just the tip of the Iceberg! Find the source code [Here](https://github.com/xrio/simple-spring-boot-movies). More articles [Here](https://elattar.me/).

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