spring boot 4 comments

In Spring Boot, we can create a @TestConfiguration class to initialize some beans for testing class only. P.S Tested with Spring Boot 2 1. @TestConfiguration + @Import This @TestConfiguration class will not pick up by the component scanning, we need to import it manually. TestConfig.java package com.mkyong; import org.springframework.boot.test.context.TestConfiguration; import org.springframework.boot.web.client.RestTemplateBuilder; import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean; import java.time.Duration; […]

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elasticsearch 17 comments

ElasticSearch is an Open-source Enterprise REST based Real-time Search and Analytics Engine. It’s core Search Functionality is built using Apache Lucene, but supports many other features. It is written in Java Language. It supports Store, Index, Search and Analyze Data in Real-time. Like MongoDB, ElasticSearch is also a Document-based NoSQL Data Store. Note ElasticSearch website: […]

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spring mvc 4 comments

In Spring MVC, just annotate a @Valid on the @RequestBody to fire the validation process. Note For complete source code, please refer to this – Spring Boot Ajax example P.S Tested with Spring Boot 1.5.1.RELEASE (Spring 4.3.6.RELEASE) 1. JSR 303 Validation Add JSR303 annotations on a bean. package com.mkyong.model; import org.hibernate.validator.constraints.NotBlank; public class SearchCriteria { […]

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spring 5 comments

Some cURL POST request examples for self reference. 1. Normal POST 1.1 To POST without data. $ curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/api/login/ 1.2 To POST with data. $ curl -d "username=mkyong&password=abc" http://localhost:8080/api/login/ 1.3 Spring REST to accept normal POST data. @PostMapping("/api/login") public ResponseEntity<?> login(@RequestParam("username") String username, @RequestParam("password") String password) { //… } @PostMapping("/api/login") public ResponseEntity<?> login(@ModelAttribute […]

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spring 2 comments

This article shows you how to use cURL command to POST JSON data to a Spring REST API. 1. Spring REST A Simple Spring REST API to validate a login. LoginController.java package com.mkyong.controller; import org.slf4j.Logger; import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory; import org.springframework.http.HttpHeaders; import org.springframework.http.HttpStatus; import org.springframework.http.ResponseEntity; import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller; import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.*; @Controller public class LoginController { private final Logger […]

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spring boot 27 comments

This article shows you how to upload files in Spring Boot web application (REST structure), using Ajax requests. Tools used in this article : Spring Boot 1.4.3.RELEASE Spring 4.3.5.RELEASE Thymeleaf jQuery (webjars) Maven Embedded Tomcat 8.5.6 Google Chrome Browser (Network Inspect) 1. Project Structure A standard Maven project structure. 2. Project Dependency Declares an extra […]

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