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Idempotency for a financial transaction API
Say you have a REST API endpoint like POST /move-money which transfers money from your main account to a savings pot. There are three path parameters
accountId for the user's account
potId for the ...
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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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DTO vs POJO (Entity) on POST request
If I have for example a User POJO like the following
@AllArgsConstructor
public class User {
@Id
private final String id;
private String username;
private String password;
private Date createdDate;...
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How to Implement Spring Boot Endpoint for Confluent Cloud-Like Batch Payloads?
I'm currently working on a Spring Boot application where I need to create an endpoint similar to the one mentioned in the Confluent Cloud documentation (link).
The cURL example provided in the ...
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Multithreaded processing of single REST requests
Background:
We're providing an API that provides information about all users within a given group. Our API is a high level facade over another low-level REST API.
To gather those information we first ...
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Best method to differentiate between two REST methods with the same pathparam (in Quarkus)
I have an issue regarding the differentiation between two Rest methods that have the same amount of path parameters:
@GET
@Path("image/{ratio}/")
@Produces("image/png")
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Communicating error conditions in client API for remote RESTful server, what's the best way?
I'm writing an application based on a RESTful API located in a server (written in Python).
An Android app will access the API endpoints to get, post, put or delete data. The usual.
The server has a ...
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Is there a set of guidelines on how to handle/code execution of Spring Microservices RESTful API calls?
I'm building a RESTful web api using Spring Microservices. I am following the Controller/Service/Repository Structure.
Where can I find some guidelines on what the responsibility of each class should ...
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How to implement resources of a REST API as classes?
I need to access and process different resources from a REST API. For this I've come up with two different approaches:
Approach 1:
Create one class per resource, that handles accessing the data from ...
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How should an API handle unsupported fields?
Let's assume I have this API on /api/v2/persons that enables me to create new entries by POSTing this JSON:
{
"name": "me"
}
The API is implemented using Spring Boot and if ...
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How to design RESTful API for response object properties dependent on request parameter
I have a RESTful service where clients provide product codes, start date and end date. In response, the service returns a list of price metrics for the products over the date range. Start date is ...
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Java REST services - What are best practices regarding DTOs?
I've been working on a project that communicates with a service which sends very complicated REST responses. Current "best practice" on this team is that we use POJO DTOs to handle all data ...
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Checking the user in almost all use cases
I have a web application that has Users that belong to Companies. A User can only belong to 1 Company at a time and they can manage their own company information. I'm using java spring and I'm ...
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Design Pattern for accessing data over RestAPI calls
I am looking out for a general design strategy or pattern designing various components in my client application. Here are high level details:
The data is accessed my making a RestAPI call. The data ...
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Should I create two synchronous or a single asynchronous rest APIs?
Here is the situation. System A sends the notification as it completes the work items to System B. System A does not know how many items the project consists of. It's just a pass-through system. ...
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