Spring REST Concepts

Internal

• Spring MVC Concepts
• Spring Framework

Overview

The. Spring REST concepts page is an extension of the Spring MVC Concepts page. Spring MVC concepts are used and extended to provide REST support.

Annotations

• @RestController
• @CrossOrigin

Responses

The @RestController annotation implies @ResponseBody, which maps the result produced by the handler method onto the body of the HTTP response.

REST Clients

RestTemplate

TO PROCESS: https://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/spring-framework-reference/web.html#webmvc-resttemplate

POSTing Resource. Data

This overloaded version allows you to receive the newly created resource as a domain model object:

RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate();

MyResource model = new MyResource(...);

MyResource created = restTemplate.postForObject("http://localhost:8080/myresource", model, MyResource.class);