Spring MVC: Designing Real-World Web Applications

Client is the king

We will allow third-party clients to retrieve the search results via a REST API. These results will be available either in JSON or XML.

We want to handle requests of the /api/search/mixed;keywords=springFramework form. This is really similar to the search form we already made, except that the request path begins with api. Every URI found in this namespace should return binary results.

Let's create a new SearchApiController class in the search.api package:

package masterSpringMvc.search.api; import masterSpringMvc.search.SearchService; import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired; import org.springframework.social.twitter.api.Tweet; import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.*; import java.util.List; @RestController ...