livelessons-data-rest

Lesson 4: Working With Data (Spring Data REST)

Introduction

This example shows how you can expose a Spring Data Repoistory over REST.

Building and running the sample

Use the following commands to build run the application:

$ mvn clean package
$ java -jar target/livelessons-data-rest-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

Understanding the code

This is exactly the same code as the JPA example, except we have an additional spring-boot-starter-data-rest dependency. The CarRepository also includes a couple of new annotations. The @RestResource(path="find") provides a nicer name for the search URL and @Param("make") is used to indicate the name of the query parameter.

Once running you can open a browser to http://localhost:8080/cars to navigate the elements. To perform a search you can use URLs in the form http://localhost:8080/cars/search/find?make=honda.