Chapter 4. Building a REST API for a Stateless Architecture
This chapter will present the following recipes:
- Binding requests and marshalling responses
- Configuring the content-negotiation (
json,xml, and so on) - Adding pagination, filters, and sorting capabilities
- Handling exceptions globally
- Documenting and exposing an API with Swagger
Introduction
In this chapter, quite a few changes will be implemented. In fact, this chapter really sets our application development on an acceleration ramp.
Before diving into the code, we need to brush up on a few concepts about REST.
A definition of REST
REST is an architecture style. Its name is an abbreviation for Representational State Transfer. The term was invented by Roy Fielding, one of the principal authors of ...
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