Spring Example with VS Code

Introduction

To make sure my Java is keeping up with my Typescript I revisited Spring to see what it would take to build a REST API using the Spring Web framework. The goal was

• Create a REST API
• Create GET endpoints
• Use a database in Spring
• Add Filtering to endpoint
• Add OAuth to endpoint

Installation

This was remarkably easy.

Install Java

sudo apt install default-jdk -y

Install Maven

We grab lastest and put it in /opt

  wget https://dlcdn.apache.org/maven/maven-3/3.9.9/binaries/apache-maven-3.9.9-bin.tar.gz
  sudo tar xf apache-maven-3.9.9-bin.tar.gz -C /opt

Make a profile in /etc/profile.d/maven.sh

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/default-java 
export M3_HOME=/opt/apache-maven-3.9.9
export MAVEN_HOME=/opt/apache-maven-3.9.9
export PATH=${M3_HOME}/bin:${PATH}

Now we can have an environment with . /etc/profile.d/maven.sh

VS Code Setup

For me I installed

• Java Extension Pack
• Spring Boot Extension Pack
• Spring Initializer

Create New Project

You can do this using the Spring Initializer extension. For this project we need

• spring-boot-starter-web
• spring-boot-starter-data-jpa

For me the main change was to rename application.properties to application.yml so I could configure the project better. This included fixing the port and and the request header size

spring:
  application:
    name: springbibble
server:
  port: 8082
  max-http-request-header-size: 10MB

Making an Endpoint

This again could not be easier. All I had to do was in the Java Project explorer, press plus against my application and it prompted me to add a class. Type in pingController and we were away. Just add annotations to controller and endpoint

@RestController
public class pingController {

    @GetMapping("/ping")
    public String ping() {
        return "pong";
    }
}

Adding Snowflake

My last place used snowflake and wasn't keen but this is odd enough to demonstrate how to do it for anything. In pom.xml, add the dependency.

		<dependency>
			<groupId>net.snowflake</groupId>
    		<artifactId>snowflake-jdbc</artifactId>
    		<version>3.13.34</version>
		</dependency>

Making a proper endpoint

To model my approach used in Typescript we will have

• Controller
• Service
• Repository
• Entity

None of these are difficult and with Spring a lot of the code comes for fred

Controller

package local.bibble.brat.controllers;

import java.util.List;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.GetMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestParam;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;

import local.bibble.brat.entities.Area;
import local.bibble.brat.services.AreaService;

@RestController
@RequestMapping("/api/areas")
public class areaController {

    @Autowired
    private AreaService areaService;

    @GetMapping
    public List<Area> getLocationId(@RequestParam("id") Long id) {
        return areaService.findByLocationId(id);
    }

}