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 Questions
What is loose coupling?
What is a Dependency?
What is IOC (Inversion of Control)?
What is Dependency Injection?
Can you give few examples of Dependency
Injection?
What is Auto Wiring?
 Tight Coupling
public class TodoBusinessService {

TodoDataServiceImpl dataService = new TodoDataServiceImpl();

public class ComplexAlgorithmImpl {

BubbleSortAlgorithm bubbleSortAlgorithm
= new BubbleSortAlgorithm();
 Loose Coupling
@Component
public class TodoBusinessService {

@Autowired
TodoDataService dataService;// = new TodoDataService()

public TodoBusinessService(TodoDataService dataService) {

this.dataService = dataService;
}

public interface TodoDataService {

List<String> retrieveTodos(String user);
}
 Loose Coupling
@Component
public class ComplexAlgorithmImpl {

@Autowired
private SortAlgorithm sortAlgorithm;

public interface SortAlgorithm {

public int[] sort(int[] numbers);
}

public class QuickSortAlgorithm implements SortAlgorithm {

public class BubbleSortAlgorithm implements SortAlgorithm {

 Dependency Injection
We use Spring Framework to instantiate beans and
wire dependencies
ComplexAlgorithmImpl binarySearch =
new ComplexAlgorithmImpl(new QuickSortAlgorithm());

@Component
public class ComplexAlgorithmImpl {

@Autowired
private SortAlgorithm sortAlgorithm;
 Inversion of Control
public class ComplexAlgorithmImpl {

BubbleSortAlgorithm bubbleSortAlgorithm
= new BubbleSortAlgorithm();

@Component
public class ComplexAlgorithmImpl {

@Autowired
private SortAlgorithm sortAlgorithm;
 Questions
What are the important roles of an IOC Container?
What are Bean Factory and Application Context?
Can you compare Bean Factory with Application
Context?
How do you create an application context with
Spring?
 IOC Container
Find Beans
Wire Dependencies
Manage Lifecycle of the Bean
 IOC Container
@Component
public class ComplexAlgorithmImpl {

@Autowired
private SortAlgorithm sortAlgorithm;

@Component
public class QuickSortAlgorithm implements SortAlgorithm {

public interface SortAlgorithm {

public int[] sort(int[] numbers);
}
 Application Context
Bean Factory++
Spring’s AOP features
I18n capabilities
WebApplicationContext for web applications etc
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans h
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx h
http://www.springframework.org/schema/cont
http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop
</beans>

ApplicationContext context =
new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(
new String[] {"BusinessApplicationContext.xml",
"Other-Configuration.xml"});
@Configuration
class SpringContext {
}

ApplicationContext ctx =
new AnnotationConfigApplicationContext(
SpringContext.class);
 Unit Tests
@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration(classes = JavaTestContext.class)
public class DependencyInjectionJavaContextExamples {

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration(locations = { "/TestContext.xml" })
public class TodoBusinessTest {
 Questions
How does Spring know where to search for
Components or Beans?
What is a component scan?
How do you define a component scan in XML and
Java Configurations?
How is it done with Spring Boot?
 Java Configuration
@Configuration
@ComponentScan(basePackages = {
"com.in28minutes.spring.example1.businessservice",
"com.in28minutes.spring.example1.dataservice.stub" })
class SpringContext {
}
 XML Configuration
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans h
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx h
http://www.springframework.org/schema/cont
http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop
<context:component-scan
base-package="com.in28minutes.example"/>
</beans>
 Spring Boot
package com.in28minutes.spring.basics.springin5steps;

@SpringBootApplication
public class SpringIn5StepsApplication {

package com.in28minutes.spring.basics.springin5steps;

@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@SpringBootTest
public class SpringIn5StepsApplicationTests {
 Questions
What does @Component signify?
What does @Autowired signify?
What’s the difference Between @Controller,
@Component, @Repository, and @Service
Annotations in Spring?
 Notes
@Component - Spring should manage the bean.
@Autowired - Spring should find the matching bean
and wire the dependency in.
@Component
public class ComplexAlgorithmImpl {

@Autowired
private SortAlgorithm sortAlgorithm;

public interface SortAlgorithm {

public int[] sort(int[] numbers);
}

@Component
public class QuickSortAlgorithm implements SortAlgorithm {
 Notes
@Component - Generic Component
@Repository - encapsulating storage, retrieval, and
search behavior typically from a relational database
@Service - Business Service Facade
@Controller - Controller in MVC pattern
 Questions
What is the default scope of a bean?
Are Spring beans thread safe?
What are the other scopes available?
How is Spring’s singleton bean different from Gang
of Four Singleton Pattern?
 Notes
The singleton scope is the default scope in Spring.
The Gang of Four defines Singleton as having one
and only one instance per ClassLoader.
However, Spring singleton is defined as one instance
of bean definition per container.
 Other Scopes
singleton - One instance per Spring Context
prototype - New bean whenever requested
request - One bean per HTTP request. Web-aware
Spring ApplicationContext.
session - One bean per HTTP session. Web-aware
Spring ApplicationContext.
 Examples
@RequestScope
@Component
public class RequestScopedBean {

@SessionScope
@Component
public class SessionScopedBean {

<bean id="someBean" class="com.in28minutes.SomeBean"

scope="prototype"/>
 Questions
What are the different types of dependency
injections?
What is setter injection?
What is constructor injection?
How do you choose between setter and constructor
injections?
 Setter Injection
@Component
public class TodoBusinessService {

TodoDataService dataService;

@Autowired
public void setDataService
(TodoDataService dataService) {
this.dataService = dataService;
}

//Through Reflection
@Component
public class TodoBusinessService {

@Autowired
TodoDataService dataService;
 Constructor Injection
@Component
public class TodoBusinessService {

TodoDataService dataService;

@Autowired
public TodoBusinessService(TodoDataService dataService) {
super();
this.dataService = dataService;
}
Constructor vs Setter Injection
https://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/spring-
framework-reference/htmlsingle/
The Spring team generally advocates constructor
injection as it enables one to implement application
components as immutable objects and to ensure
that required dependencies are not null.
Constructor vs Setter Injection
Furthermore constructor-injected components are
always returned to client (calling) code in a fully
initialized state.
As a side note, a large number of constructor
arguments is a bad code smell.
Constructor vs Setter Injection
Constructor Injection for Mandatory Dependencies
Setter Injection for Optional Dependencies
 Questions
What are the different options available to create
Application Contexts for Spring?
What is the difference between XML and Java
Configurations for Spring?
How do you choose between XML and Java
Configurations for Spring?
 XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans h
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx h
http://www.springframework.org/schema/cont
http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop
</beans>

ApplicationContext context =
new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(
new String[] {"BusinessApplicationContext.xml",
"Other-Configuration.xml"});
 Java
@Configuration
class SpringContext {
}

ApplicationContext ctx =
new AnnotationConfigApplicationContext(
SpringContext.class);
 XML vs Java Configuration
Today, with use of annotations, the things that are
specified in a Application Context are at bare
minimum.
There is little to choose between these as long as
the configuration is at a bare minimum.
 XML vs Java Configuration
With Spring Boot, we are slowly moving towards
complete Java Configuration.
package com.in28minutes.spring.basics.springin5steps;

@SpringBootApplication
public class SpringIn5StepsApplication {
 Questions
How does Spring do Autowiring?
What are the different kinds of matching used by
Spring for Autowiring?
 Autowiring
byType
byName
constructor - similar to byType, but through
constuctor
 by Type - Class or Interface
@Component
public class ComplexAlgorithmImpl {

@Autowired
private SortAlgorithm sortAlgorithm;

public interface SortAlgorithm {

public int[] sort(int[] numbers);
}

@Component
public class QuickSortAlgorithm implements SortAlgorithm {
 by Name
@Component
public class ComplexAlgorithmImpl {

@Autowired
private SortAlgorithm quickSortAlgorithm;

public interface SortAlgorithm {

public int[] sort(int[] numbers);
}

@Component
public class QuickSortAlgorithm implements SortAlgorithm {

@Component
public class BubbleSortAlgorithm implements SortAlgorithm {
 Questions
How do you debug problems with Spring
Framework?
NoUniqueBeanDefinitionException
NoSuchBeanDefinitionException
What is @Primary?
What is @Qualifier?
 No matching Components
@Component
public class ComplexAlgorithmImpl {

@Autowired
private SortAlgorithm sortAlgorithm;

public interface SortAlgorithm {

public int[] sort(int[] numbers);
}

public class QuickSortAlgorithm implements SortAlgorithm {

public class BubbleSortAlgorithm implements SortAlgorithm {

UnsatisfiedDependencyException:
Error creating bean with name 'binarySearchImpl':
Unsatisfied dependency expressed through field 'sortAlgorithm';
nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.:
No qualifying bean of type
'com.in28minutes.spring.basics.springin5steps.SortAlgorithm'
available:
expected at least 1 bean which qualifies as autowire candidate.
Dependency annotations:
{@org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired
(required=true)}
 Typically problems
@Component missing
or @ComponentScan not defined properly
 Exception - Two matching
Components
@Component
public class ComplexAlgorithmImpl {

@Autowired
private SortAlgorithm sortAlgorithm;

public interface SortAlgorithm {

public int[] sort(int[] numbers);
}

@Component
public class QuickSortAlgorithm implements SortAlgorithm {

@Component
public class BubbleSortAlgorithm implements SortAlgorithm {
 Field sortAlgorithm in
springin5steps.BinarySearchImpl required a single
bean, but 2 were found:
bubbleSortAlgorithm: defined in file
[BubbleSortAlgorithm.class]
quickSortAlgorithm: defined in file
[QuickSortAlgorithm.class]
 Primary
@Component
@Primary
public class BubbleSortAlgorithm implements SortAlgorithm {
 Qualifier
@Component
public class ComplexAlgorithmImpl {

@Autowired
@Qualifier("mainAlgorithm")
private SortAlgorithm sortAlgorithm;

@Component
@Qualifier("mainAlgorithm")
public class BubbleSortAlgorithm implements SortAlgorithm {
 Questions
What is CDI (Contexts and Dependency Injection)?
Does Spring Support CDI?
Would you recommed to use CDI or Spring
Annotations?
 CDI
Java EE Dependency Injection Standard (JSR-330)
Spring Supports most annotations
@Inject (@Autowired)
@Named (@Component & @Qualifier)
@Singleton (Defines a scope of Singleton)
 Questions
What are the major features in different versions of
Spring?
What are new features in Spring Framework 4.0?
What are new features in Spring Framework 5.0?
 Notes
Spring 2.5 made annotation-driven configuration
possible.
Spring 3.0 made great use of the Java 5
improvements in language.
 Spring 4.0
First version to fully support Java 8 features.
Minimum version of Java to use Spring 4 is Java SE
6.
Introduced @RestController annotation
Spring 4.1 supports JCache (JSR-107) annotations
 Spring 5.0
Functional web framework
Support for Jigsaw (Java Modularity)
Support for reactive programming
Support for Kotlin
 Questions
What are important Spring Modules?
Spring Modules
 Questions
What are important Spring Projects?
Spring Projects
Spring Boot
Spring Cloud
Spring Data
Spring Integration
Spring Batch
Spring Security
Spring HATEOAS
Spring Web Services
Spring Session
 Questions
What is the simplest way of ensuring that we are
using single version of all Spring related
dependencies?
 Use a BOM
<dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-framework-bom</artifactId>
<version>5.0.0.RELEASE</version>
<type>pom</type>
<scope>import</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>

<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependencies>
 Questions
Name some of the design patterns used in Spring
Framework?
 Design Patterns in Spring
Front Controller - Dispatcher Servlet
Prototype - Beans
Dependency Injection
Factory Pattern - Bean Factory & Application Context
Template Method
org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.AbstractCont
 Questions
What are some of the important Spring annotations
you have used?
 Annotations
@Component, @Service, @Repository, @Controller
@Autowired
@Primary
@Qualifier
@Configuration
 Questions
What do you think about Spring Framework?
Why is Spring Popular?
Can you give a big picture of the Spring Framework?
Architecture - Flexible & No Restrictions
Design - Loosely Coupled
Code - Easy Unit Testing
Features - Dependency Injection, IOC
Container(Bean Factory & Application Context), Auto
wiring, Component Scan
Spring Modules
Spring Projects
MVC
 Questions
What is Model 1 architecture?
 Questions
What is Model 2 architecture?
 Questions
What is Model 2 Front Controller architecture?
 Questions
Can you show an example controller method in
Spring MVC?
Can you explain a simple flow in Spring MVC?
What is a ViewResolver?
What is Model?
What is ModelAndView?
What is a RequestMapping?
 Controller Method
@RequestMapping(value = "/list-todos",
method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String listTodos(ModelMap model) {
model.addAttribute("todos",
service.retrieveTodos(retrieveLoggedinUserName()));
return "list-todos";
}
 ViewResolver
<bean
class=
"org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolve
<property name="prefix">
<value>/WEB-INF/views/</value>
</property>
<property name="suffix">
<value>.jsp</value>
</property>
</bean>
 Model vs ModelAndView
@RequestMapping(value = "/", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String showLoginPage(ModelMap model) {
model.put("name", "in28Minutes");
return "welcome";
}

@RequestMapping(value = "/", method = RequestMethod.GET)

public ModelAndView showLoginPage() {
ModelAndView mv = new ModelAndView();
mv.addObject("name", "in28Minutes");
mv.setViewName("welcome");
}
 Questions
What is Dispatcher Servlet?
How do you set up Dispatcher Servlet?
<servlet>
<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
<init-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/todo-servlet.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
 Questions
What is a form backing object?
How is validation done using Spring MVC?
What is BindingResult?
How do you map validation results to your view?
What are Spring Form Tags?
 Show New Todo Page
@RequestMapping(value = "/add-todo",
method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String showTodoPage(ModelMap model) {

model.addAttribute("todo", new Todo(0,

retrieveLoggedinUserName(), "",
new Date(), false));
return "todo";

}
 todo.jsp
<form:form method="post" commandName="todo">
<fieldset>
<form:label path="desc">Description</form:label>
<form:input path="desc" type="text"/>
<form:errors path="desc"/>
</fieldset>
<fieldset>
<form:label path="targetDate">Target Date</form:label>
<form:input path="targetDate" type="text" />
<form:errors path="targetDate"/>
</fieldset>
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form:form>
 Add Todo
@RequestMapping(value = "/add-todo", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public String addTodo(ModelMap model, @Valid Todo todo,
BindingResult result) {
if (result.hasErrors()) {
return "todo";
}
service.addTodo(retrieveLoggedinUserName(), todo.getDesc(), new
false);
model.clear();
return "redirect:list-todos";
}
 Todo.java
public class Todo {

private int id;

private String user;

@Size(min = 6, message = "Enter atleast 6 characters")

private String desc;
 Questions
What is a Path Variable?
What is a Model Attribute?
What is a Session Attribute?
 Path Variable
http://localhost:8080/todos/1
@RequestMapping(value = "/todos/{id}")
public Todo retrieveTodo(@PathVariable int id) {
return service.retrieveTodo(id);
}
@ModelAttribute
public void addAttributes(Model model) {
model.addAttribute("options",
Arrays.asList(
"Option 1","Option 2","Option 3" ));
}
 Model Attribute
Indicates the purpose of that method is to add one
or more model attributes.
Invoked before @RequestMapping methods.
Used to fill the model with commonly needed
attributes
Drop down values for form
 @SessionAttributes
List the names of model attributes which should be
transparently stored in the session or some
conversational storage.
@SessionAttributes("name")
public class TodoController {
 Questions
What is a init binder?
How do you set default date format with Spring?
@InitBinder
protected void initBinder(WebDataBinder binder) {
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy"
binder.registerCustomEditor(Date.class, new CustomDateEditor(
dateFormat, false));
}
 Questions
How do you implement common logic for
Controllers in Spring MVC?
What is a Controller Advice?
What is @ExceptionHandler?
 Questions
How to handle exceptions for web applications?
What are the important things to think about when
implementing Exception Handling?
How do you implement Specific Error Handling for a
Spring MVC Controller?
 ExceptionController
@ControllerAdvice
public class ExceptionController {

private Log logger = LogFactory.getLog(ExceptionController.class)

@ExceptionHandler(value = Exception.class)
public String handleException
(HttpServletRequest request, Exception ex) {
logger.error("Request " + request.getRequestURL()
+ " Threw an Exception", ex);
return "error";
}

}
 Questions
Why is Spring MVC so popular?
 Spring MVC
Clear Seperation of Concerns
Dispatcher Servlet
View Resolver
View
Model
 We will discuss more "Spring
MVC" questions in the section on
RESTful Webservices.
Spring Boot
 Questions
What is Spring Boot?
What are the important Goals of Spring Boot?
What are the important Features of Spring Boot?
 Why Spring Boot?
Spring based applications have a lot of
configuration.
When we use Spring MVC, we need to configure
component scan, dispatcher servlet, a view resolver,
web jars(for delivering static content) among other
things.
 Why Spring Boot?
World is moving towards Microservices.
We do not have a lot of time to set up 100
microservices.
Spring Boot Goals
Quick Start to Spring
Be opinionated
Non functional features
No code generation
Spring Boot Features
Auto Configuration
Spring Boot Starter Projects
Spring Boot Actuator
Embedded Server
 Questions
Compare Spring Boot vs Spring?
Compare Spring Boot vs Spring MVC?
 Spring
Most important feature of Spring
Framework is Dependency Injection. At
the core of all Spring Modules is
Dependency Injection or IOC Inversion
of Control.
@RestController
public class WelcomeController {

private WelcomeService service = new WelcomeService();

@RequestMapping("/welcome")
public String welcome() {
return service.retrieveWelcomeMessage();
}
}
 With Spring
@Component
public class WelcomeService {
//Bla Bla Bla
}

@RestController
public class WelcomeController {

@Autowired
private WelcomeService service;

@RequestMapping("/welcome")
public String welcome() {
return service.retrieveWelcomeMessage();
}
}
 Problems Spring Solves
Problem 1 : Duplication/Plumbing Code
Problem 2 : Good Integration with Other
Frameworks.
 Spring MVC
Spring MVC Framework provides
decoupled way of developing web
applications. With simple concepts like
Dispatcher Servlet, ModelAndView and
View Resolver, it makes it easy to
develop web applications.
 Spring Boot
Eliminates all configuration needed by Spring and
Spring MVC and auto configures it
No need for @ComponentScan. Default
Component Scan.
No need to configure DispatcherServlet
No need to configure a Data Source, Entity
Manager Factory or Transaction Manager.
Spring Boot Thinking
Can we bring more intelligence into
this? When a spring mvc jar is added
into an application, can we auto
configure some beans automatically?
 Spring Boot Thinking
Spring Boot looks at
Frameworks available on the CLASSPATH
Existing configuration for the application.

Based on these, Spring Boot provides

Auto Configuration.
 Questions
What is the importance of @SpringBootApplication?
 SpringBootApplication
@SpringBootConfiguration
@EnableAutoConfiguration
@ComponentScan
public @interface SpringBootApplication {
 Questions
What is Auto Configuration?
How can we find more information about Auto
Configuration?
 Spring Boot looks at a) Frameworks
available on the CLASSPATH b) Existing
configuration for the application.
Based on these, Spring Boot provides
basic configuration needed to
configure the application with these
frameworks. This is called Auto
Configuration.
 Application Startup Log
Mapping servlet: 'dispatcherServlet' to [/]

Mapped "{[/error]}" onto public org.springframework.http.ResponseEn

<java.util.Map<java.lang.String, java.lang.Object>> org.springframe
BasicErrorController.error(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest)

Mapped URL path [/webjars/ * *] onto handler of type

[class org.springframework.web.servlet.resource.ResourceHttpRequest
 Implementation
spring-boot-autoconfigure.jar
To get more details
Turn on Debug logging
logging.level.org.springframework:
DEBUG
Use Spring Boot Actuator
 Questions
What is an embedded server? Why is it important?
What is the default embedded server with Spring
Boot?
What are the other embedded servers supported by
Spring Boot?
 Embedded Server
Server is embedded as part of the deployable - jar.
Removes the need to have the server pre-installed
on the deployment environment.
Default is Tomcat.
Spring Boot also supports Jetty and UnderTow.
 Switching to Jetty
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-jetty</artifactId>
</dependency>
 Questions
What are Starter Projects?
Can you give examples of important starter
projects?
Spring Boot Documentation
Starters are a set of convenient
dependency descriptors that you can
include in your application. You get a
one-stop-shop for all the Spring and
related technology that you need,
without having to hunt through sample
code and copy paste loads of
dependency descriptors.
Spring Boot Documentation
For example, if you want to get started
using Spring and JPA for database
access, just include the spring-boot-
starter-data-jpa dependency in your
project, and you are good to go.
 Starters
spring-boot-starter-web-services - SOAP
WebServices
spring-boot-starter-web - Web & RESTful
applications
spring-boot-starter-test - Unit, Integration Testing
spring-boot-starter-jdbc - Traditional JDBC
spring-boot-starter-hateoas - HATEOAS features
 Starters
spring-boot-starter-security - Authentication and
Authorization using Spring Security
spring-boot-starter-data-jpa - Spring Data JPA with
Hibernate
spring-boot-starter-cache - Enabling Spring
Framework’s caching support
spring-boot-starter-data-rest - Expose Simple REST
Services using Spring Data REST
spring-boot-starter-actuator - To use advanced
features like monitoring & tracing to your
application out of the box
spring-boot-starter-undertow, spring-boot-starter-
jetty, spring-boot-starter-tomcat - To pick your
specific choice of Embedded Servlet Container
spring-boot-starter-logging - For Logging using
logback
spring-boot-starter-log4j2 - Logging using Log4j2
 Questions
What is Starter Parent?
What are the different things that are defined in
Starter Parent?
How does Spring Boot enforce common
dependency management for all its Starter projects?
 Starter Parent
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>2.0.0.RELEASE</version>
</parent>
 Inside Starter Parent
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-dependencies</artifactId>
<version>2.0.0.RELEASE</version>
<relativePath>../../spring-boot-dependencies</relativePath>
</parent>

<java.version>1.6</java.version>
<resource.delimiter>@</resource.delimiter> <!-- delimiter that does
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding
<project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEn
<maven.compiler.source>${java.version}</maven.compiler.source>
<maven.compiler.target>${java.version}</maven.compiler.target>
Inside Spring Boot Dependencies
<ehcache3.version>3.1.1</ehcache3.version>
...
<h2.version>1.4.192</h2.version>
<hamcrest.version>1.3</hamcrest.version>
<hazelcast.version>3.6.4</hazelcast.version>
<hibernate.version>5.0.9.Final</hibernate.version>
<hibernate-validator.version>5.2.4.Final</hibernate-validator.versi
<jackson.version>2.8.1</jackson.version>
....
<jersey.version>2.23.1</jersey.version>
<spring-security.version>4.1.1.RELEASE</spring-security.version>
<tomcat.version>8.5.4</tomcat.version>
<xml-apis.version>1.4.01</xml-apis.version>
 Questions
What is Spring Initializr?
Spring Initializr http://start.spring.io/ is
great tool to bootstrap your Spring
Boot projects.
 Questions
What is application.properties?
What are some of the important things that can
customized in application.properties?
 application.properties is used to
configure your Spring Boot Application
 Example Configuration
logging.file=
logging.level.*=
spring.autoconfigure.exclude=
spring.profiles.active=
server.error.path=/error
server.port=8080
spring.http.converters.preferred-json-mapper=jackson
 Questions
How do you externalize configuration using Spring
Boot?
How can you add custom application properties
using Spring Boot?
What is @ConfigurationProperties?
logging:
level:
org.springframework: DEBUG
app:
name: In28Minutes
description: ${app.name} is your first Spring Boot application
import
org.springframework.boot.context.properties.ConfigurationPropertie

@Component
@ConfigurationProperties("basic")
public class BasicConfiguration {
private boolean value;
private String message;
private int number;
@Autowired
private BasicConfiguration configuration;

@RequestMapping("/dynamic-configuration")
public Map dynamicConfiguration() {
// Not the best practice to use a map to store differnt types!
Map map = new HashMap();
map.put("message", configuration.getMessage());
map.put("number", configuration.getNumber());
map.put("key", configuration.isValue());
return map;
}
 application.properties
basic.value= true
basic.message= Dynamic Message
basic.number= 100

application.yaml
basic:
value: true
message: Dynamic Message YAML
number: 100
 Advantage
Type Safety
***************************
APPLICATION FAILED TO START
***************************

Description:

Binding to target
com.in28minutes.springboot.configuration.BasicConfiguration@391b854
failed:

Property: basic.number
Value: ABC
Reason: Failed to convert property value of type [java.lang.String]
to required type [int] for property 'number'; nested exception is
org.springframework.core.convert.ConverterNotFoundException:
No converter found capable of converting from
 Good Practice
Design all your application configuration using
ConfigurationProperties
 Questions
What is a profile?
How do you define beans for a specific profile?
How do you create application configuration for a
specific profile?
 Profile
How do you have different
configuration for different
environments?
 Profile
application-dev.properties
application-qa.properties
application-stage.properties
application-prod.properties
application.properties
 Profile
Based on the active profile, appropriate
configuration is picked up.
Used to Configure Resources - Databases, Queues,
External Services
 Setting a profile
Using -Dspring.profiles.active=prod in VM
Arguments
In application.properties,
spring.profiles.active=prod
 Profiles in code
@Profile("dev") on a bean
@Profile("dev")
@Bean
public String devBean() {
return "I will be available in profile dev";
}

@Profile("prod")
@Bean
public String prodBean() {
return "I will be available in profile prod";
}
 Questions
What is Spring Boot Actuator?
How do you monitor web services using Spring Boot
Actuator?
How do you find more information about your
application envrionment using Spring Boot?
 Spring Boot Actuator
Monitoring
/env, /metrics, /trace, /dump
/beans, / autoconfig, /configprops, /mappings
URL has changed in Spring Boot 2.0 - /application
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-actuator</artifactId>
</dependency>
 Questions
What is a CommandLineRunner?
 CommandLineRunner
Spring Documentation - interface used
to indicate that a bean should run
when it is contained within a
SpringApplication

public interface CommandLineRunner {

void run(String... args) throws Exception;
}
Database Connectivity - JDBC,
Spring JDBC & JPA
 Questions
What is Spring JDBC? How is different from JDBC?
What is a JdbcTemplate?
What is a RowMapper?
 JDBC - Update Todo
Connection connection = datasource.getConnection();

PreparedStatement st = connection.prepareStatement(
"Update todo set user=?, desc=?, target_date=?, is_done=? where i

st.setString(1, todo.getUser());
st.setString(2, todo.getDesc());
st.setTimestamp(3, new Timestamp(todo.getTargetDate().getTime()));
st.setBoolean(4, todo.isDone());
st.setInt(5, todo.getId());

st.execute();
st.close();
connection.close();
 Spring JDBC
jdbcTemplate
.update
("Update todo set user=?, desc=?, target_date=?, is_done=? where i
todo.getUser(), todo.getDesc(),
new Timestamp(todo.getTargetDate().getTime()),
todo.isDone(), todo.getId());

jdbcTemplate.update("delete from todo where id=?",

id);
 Spring JDBC - RowMapper
new BeanPropertyRowMapper(Todo.class)

class TodoMapper implements RowMapper<Todo> {

@Override
public Todo mapRow(ResultSet rs, int rowNum)
throws SQLException {
Todo todo = new Todo();

todo.setId(rs.getInt("id"));
todo.setUser(rs.getString("user"));
todo.setDesc(rs.getString("desc"));
todo.setTargetDate(
rs.getTimestamp("target_date"));
todo.setDone(rs.getBoolean("is_done"));
return todo;
}
}
 Spring JDBC - RowMapper
return jdbcTemplate.query(
"SELECT * FROM TODO where user = ?",
new Object[] { user }, new TodoMapper());

return jdbcTemplate.queryForObject(
"SELECT * FROM TODO where id=?",
new Object[] { id }, new TodoMapper())
 Questions
What is JPA?
What is Hibernate?
How do you define an entity in JPA?
What is an Entity Manager?
What is a Persistence Context?
 JPA - Update Todo
Defining an entity
@Entity
@Table(name = "Todo")
public class Todo {

@Id
@GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
private int id;

private String user;

private String desc;

private Date targetDate;

private boolean isDone;

 JPA - Update Todo
public class TodoJPAService implements TodoDataService {

@PersistenceContext
private EntityManager entityManager;

@Override
public void updateTodo(Todo todo) {
entityManager.merge(todo);
}
 Questions
How do you map relationships in JPA?
What are the different types of relationships in JPA?
How do you define One to One Mapping in JPA?
How do you define One to Many Mapping in JPA?
How do you define Many to Many Mapping in JPA?
 One to One Relationship
@Entity
public class Passport {

....
// Inverse Relationship
// bi-directional OneToOne relationship
// Column will not be created in the table
// Try removing mappedBy = "passport" => You will see that studen
// will be created in passport
@OneToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY, mappedBy = "passport")
private Student student;

@Entity
@Table(name = "Student")
public class Student {

@OneToOne
private Passport passport;
 One to Many Relationship
@Entity
public class Project {
@OneToMany(mappedBy = "project")
private List<Task> tasks;

@Entity
public class Task {
@ManyToOne
@JoinColumn(name="PROJECT_ID")
private Project project;
 Many to Many Relationship
@Entity
public class Project {

@ManyToMany
// @JoinTable(name="STUDENT_PROJ",
// joinColumns=@JoinColumn(name="STUDENT_ID"),
// inverseJoinColumns=@JoinColumn(name="PROJECT_ID"))
private List<Student> students;

public class Student {

@ManyToMany(mappedBy = "students")
private List<Project> projects;
 Questions
How do you define a datasource in a Spring
Context?
What is the use of persistence.xml
How do you configure Entity Manager Factory and
Transaction Manager?
How do you define transaction management for
Spring – Hibernate integration?
 Defining a Data Source
#HSQL in-memory db
db.driver=org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver
db.url=jdbc:hsqldb:mem:firstdb
db.username=sa
db.password=

<bean id="dataSource" class="com.mchange.v2.c3p0.ComboPooledDataSou

destroy-method="close">
<property name="driverClass" value="${db.driver}" />
<property name="jdbcUrl" value="${db.url}" />
<property name="user" value="${db.username}" />
<property name="password" value="${db.password}" />
</bean>
 Configuring Hibernate
src\main\resources\config\hibernate.properties
hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect
hibernate.show_sql=false
hibernate.format_sql=false
hibernate.use_sql_comments=true
 persistence.xml
src\main\resources\META-INF\persistence.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<persistence xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence"
version="2.0">
<persistence-unit name="hsql_pu" transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL
<provider>org.hibernate.jpa.HibernatePersistenceProvider</provi
<properties>
<property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.diale
<property name="hibernate.connection.url" value="jdbc:hsqldb:
<property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class" value="org
<property name="hibernate.connection.username" value="sa" />
<property name="hibernate.connection.password" value="" />
</properties>
</persistence-unit>
</persistence>
 Configure Entity Manager
Factory and Transaction
Manager
<bean
class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerF
id="entityManagerFactory">
<property name="persistenceUnitName" value="hsql_pu" />
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
</bean>

<bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.

<property name="entityManagerFactory" ref="entityManagerFactory
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
</bean>

<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager"
Making Service Transactional
@Service
public class StudentService {

@Autowired
StudentRepository service;

@Transactional
public Student insertStudent(Student student) {
return service.insertStudent(student);
}

@Service
@Transactional
public class StudentService {

@Autowired
StudentRepository service;
Spring Data
 Questions
What is Spring Data?
What is the need for Spring Data?
What is Spring Data JPA?
Duplication in JPA Repositories
Passport Repository
@PersistenceContext
private EntityManager entityManager;

public Passport getPassport(final long id) {

Passport passport = entityManager
.find(Passport.class, id);
return passport;
}

public Passport createPassport(Passport passport) {

return entityManager.merge(passport);
}
Duplication in JPA Repositories
Student Repository
@PersistenceContext
private EntityManager entityManager;

public Student retrieveStudent(final long id) {

return entityManager.find(Student.class, id);
}

public Student createStudent(Student student) {

return entityManager.merge(student);
}
Explosion of Data Stores
Variety of Big Data Stores
 Spring Data
Common Abstractions to store and
retrieve data from data stores
Independent of type of data store
 Spring Data JPA
Extends Spring Data for connecting to
JPA
 Using Spring Data JPA
public interface StudentRepository extends CrudRepository<Student
}

public interface PassportRepository extends CrudRepository<Passport

}
 Questions
What is a CrudRepository?
What is a PagingAndSortingRepository?
 CrudRepository
public interface CrudRepository<T, ID> extends Repository<T, ID>
<S extends T> S save(S entity);
Optional<T> findById(ID id);
boolean existsById(ID id);
Iterable<T> findAll();
void deleteById(ID id);
long count();
//Other Methods
}
PagingAndSortingRepository
Pagination and Sorting
public interface PagingAndSortingRepository<T, ID>
extends CrudRepository<T, ID> {
Iterable<T> findAll(Sort sort);
Page<T> findAll(Pageable pageable);
}
 Using
PagingAndSortingRepository
Sort sort = new Sort(Sort.Direction.DESC,"field_name");
passportRepository.findAll(sort);

//Page Size - 10
PageRequest pageable = new PageRequest(0,10);
Page<Passport> page = passportRepository.findAll(pageable);
System.out.println(userPage.getTotalPages());
System.out.println(userPage.nextPageable());
Unit Testing
 Questions
How does Spring Framework Make Unit Testing
Easy?
What is Mockito?
What is your favorite mocking framework?
How do you do mock data with Mockito?
What are the different mocking annotations that you
worked with?
public class SomeBusinessImpl {
private DataService dataService;
//Constructor - public SomeBusinessImpl(DataService dataService)
int findTheGreatestFromAllData() {
int[] data = dataService.retrieveAllData();
int greatest = Integer.MIN_VALUE;

for (int value : data) {

if (value > greatest) {
greatest = value;
}
}
return greatest;
}
}
 Basic Mocking
@Test
public void testFindTheGreatestFromAllData() {

DataService dataServiceMock = mock(DataService.class);

when(dataServiceMock.retrieveAllData())
.thenReturn(new int[] { 24, 15, 3 });

SomeBusinessImpl businessImpl =
new SomeBusinessImpl(dataServiceMock);

int result = businessImpl.findTheGreatestFromAllData();

assertEquals(24, result);
}
 Using Annotations
@RunWith(MockitoJUnitRunner.class)
public class SomeBusinessMockAnnotationsTest {

@Mock
DataService dataServiceMock;

@InjectMocks
SomeBusinessImpl businessImpl;

@Test
public void testFindTheGreatestFromAllData() {
when(dataServiceMock.retrieveAllData())
.thenReturn(new int[] { 24, 15, 3 });
assertEquals(24, businessImpl.findTheGreatestFromAllData());
}
 Questions
What is MockMvc?
What is @WebMvcTest?
What is @MockBean?
How do you write a unit test with MockMVC?
What is JSONAssert?
Mock MVC Test with Spring Boot
public Question retrieveDetailsForQuestion(
@PathVariable String surveyId,
@PathVariable String questionId) {
return
surveyService.retrieveQuestion(surveyId, questionId);
}
Mock MVC Test with Spring Boot
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@WebMvcTest(value = SurveyController.class, secure = false)
public class SurveyControllerTest {

@Autowired
private MockMvc mockMvc;

@MockBean
private SurveyService surveyService;
 Mock MVC Test - Continued
@Test
public void retrieveDetailsForQuestion() throws Exception {
Question mockQuestion = new Question("Question1",
"Largest Country in the World", "Russia", Arrays.asList(
"India", "Russia", "United States", "China"));

Mockito.when(
surveyService.retrieveQuestion(Mockito.anyString(), Mockito
.anyString())).thenReturn(mockQuestion);

RequestBuilder requestBuilder = MockMvcRequestBuilders.get(

"/surveys/Survey1/questions/Question1").accept(
MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON);
 Mock MVC Test - Continued
MvcResult result = mockMvc.perform(requestBuilder)
.andReturn();

String expected =
"{id:Question1,description:Largest Country in the World,correct

JSONAssert.assertEquals(expected, result.getResponse()
.getContentAsString(), false);

// Assert
}
 Questions
How do you write an integration test with Spring
Boot?
What is @SpringBootTest?
What is @LocalServerPort?
What is TestRestTemplate?
Integration Test with Spring Boot
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@SpringBootTest(classes = Application.class,
webEnvironment = SpringBootTest.WebEnvironment.RANDOM_PORT)
public class SurveyControllerIT {

@LocalServerPort
private int port;

}
Integration Test with Spring Boot
@Test
public void testRetrieveSurveyQuestion() {

String url = "http://localhost:" + port

+ "/surveys/Survey1/questions/Question1";

HttpHeaders headers = new HttpHeaders();

headers.setAccept(Arrays.asList(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON));
HttpEntity<String> entity =
new HttpEntity<String>(null, headers);

TestRestTemplate restTemplate = new TestRestTemplate();

ResponseEntity<String> response = restTemplate.exchange(url,
HttpMethod.GET, entity, String.class);
Integration Test with Spring Boot
String expected =
"{id:Question1,description:Largest Country in the World,correctAn

JSONAssert.assertEquals(expected, response.getBody(), false);

}
AOP
 Questions
What are cross cutting concerns?
How do you implement cross cutting concerns in a
web application?
If you would want to log every request to a web
application, what are the options you can think of?
If you would want to track performance of every
request, what options can you think of?
 Questions
What is an Aspect and Pointcut in AOP?
What are the different types of AOP advices?
What is weaving?
@Component
class HiByeService {
public void sayHi(String name) {
System.out.println("Hi " + name);
}

public void sayBye() {

System.out.println("Bye");
}

public String returnSomething() {

return "Hi Bye";
}
}
@Aspect
@Component
class MyAspect {
@Before("execution(* HiByeService.*(..))")
public void before(JoinPoint joinPoint) {
System.out.print("Before ");
System.out.print(joinPoint.getSignature().getName());
System.out.println(Arrays.toString(joinPoint.getArgs()));
}
 @AfterReturning(pointcut = "execution(* HiByeService.*(..))"
, returning = "result")
public void after(JoinPoint joinPoint, Object result) {
System.out.print("After ");
System.out.print(joinPoint.getSignature().getName());
System.out.println(" result is " + result);
}
}
@Around(value = "execution(* HiByeService.*(..))")
public void around(ProceedingJoinPoint joinPoint)
throws Throwable {
long startTime = new Date().getTime();
Object result = joinPoint.proceed();
long endTime = new Date().getTime();
System.out.print("Execution Time - "
+ (endTime - startTime));
}
AOP concepts
Joinpoint
Advice
Pointcut
Aspect
Weaving
Weaver
 Advice Types
Before advice
A er returning advice
A er throwing advice
A er (finally) advice - Always executed
Around advice - Most powerful - Performance
Logging
 AspectJ vs Spring AOP
AspectJ is a full fledged AOP framework
Advise objects not managed by the Spring container
Advise join points other than simple method
executions
(for example, field get or set join points)
SOAP Web Services
 Questions
What is a Web Service?
 3 Keys
Designed for machine-to-machine (or application-
to-application) interaction
Should be interoperable - Not platform dependent
Should allow communication over a network
 Questions
What is SOAP Web Service?
What is SOAP?
Waht is a SOAP Envelope?
What is SOAP Header and SOAP Body?
This is Not SOAP Web Service
This is SOAP Web Service
SOAP Envelope
 SOAP
Format
SOAP XML Request
SOAP XML Response
Transport
SOAP over MQ
SOAP over HTTP
Service Definition
WSDL
 Questions
Can you give an example of SOAP Request and SOAP
Response?
What is a SOAP Header? What kind of information is
sent in a SOAP Header?
Can you give an example of a SOAP Header with
Authentication information?
 SOAP Request
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/
<SOAP-ENV:Header/>
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<ns2:GetCourseDetailsRequest xmlns:ns2="http://in28minutes.
<ns2:course>
<ns2:id>1</ns2:id>
</ns2:GetCourseDetailsRequest>
</ns2:getCourseDetailsResponse>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
 SOAP Response
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/
<SOAP-ENV:Header/>
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<ns2:getCourseDetailsResponse xmlns:ns2="http://in28minutes
<ns2:course>
<ns2:id>1</ns2:id>
<ns2:name>Spring</ns2:name>
<ns2:description>10 Steps</ns2:description>
</ns2:course>
</ns2:getCourseDetailsResponse>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
 SOAP Header
<Envelope xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<Header>
<wsse:Security
xmlns:wsse="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-2004
mustUnderstand="1">
<wsse:UsernameToken>
<wsse:Username>user</wsse:Username>
<wsse:Password>password</wsse:Password>
</wsse:UsernameToken>
</wsse:Security>
</Header>
<Body>
<GetCourseDetailsRequest xmlns="http://in28minutes.com/courses"
<id>1</id>
</GetCourseDetailsRequest>
</Body>
 Questions
What is WSDL (Web Service Definition Language)?
What are the different parts of a WSDL?
 WSDL
Web Service Definition Language
 Questions
What is Contract First Approach?
What is an XSD?
Can you give an example of an XSD?
 Contract
Service Definition specifying
Format of Request
Format of Response
Request/Response Structure
Transport used
Endpoint details
 Contract First
We define a contract first!
With Spring Web Services, we define an XSD first
 XSD
XML Specification Document!
How does a valid XML Look like?
 Request XML
<GetCourseDetailsRequest xmlns="http://in28minutes.com/courses">
<id>1</id>
</GetCourseDetailsRequest>
 XSD
<xs:element name="GetCourseDetailsRequest">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="id" type="xs:int" />
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
 Response XML
<ns2:GetCourseDetailsResponse xmlns:ns2="http://in28minutes.com/cou
<ns2:CourseDetails>
<ns2:id>1</ns2:id>
<ns2:name>Spring</ns2:name>
<ns2:description>10 Steps</ns2:description>
</ns2:CourseDetails>
</ns2:GetCourseDetailsResponse>
 XSD
<xs:element name="GetCourseDetailsResponse">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="CourseDetails" type="tns:CourseDetails" />
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
 XSD
<xs:complexType name="CourseDetails">
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="id" type="xs:int" />
<xs:element name="name" type="xs:string" />
<xs:element name="description" type="xs:string" />
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
 Questions
What is JAXB?
How do you configure a JAXB Plugin?
Convert from Java to SOAP XML
 JAXB Plugin
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>jaxb2-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.6</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>xjc</id>
<goals>
<goal>xjc</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<schemaDirectory>${project.basedir}/src/main/resources</schemaD
<outputDirectory>${project.basedir}/src/main/java</outputDirect
<clearOutputDir>false</clearOutputDir>
 Questions
What is an Endpoint?
Can you show an example endpoint written with
Spring Web Services?
 Endpoint
@PayloadRoot(namespace = "http://in28minutes.com/courses",
localPart = "GetCourseDetailsRequest")
@ResponsePayload
public GetCourseDetailsResponse processCourseDetailsRequest
(@RequestPayload GetCourseDetailsRequest request) {

Course course = service.findById(request.getId());

if (course == null)
throw new CourseNotFoundException("Invalid Course Id " + reques

return mapCourseDetails(course);
}
 Questions
What is a MessageDispatcherServlet?
How do you configure a MessageDispatcherServlet?
 MessageDispatcherServlet
@Bean
public ServletRegistrationBean messageDispatcherServlet
(ApplicationContext context) {
MessageDispatcherServlet messageDispatcherServlet
= new MessageDispatcherServlet();
messageDispatcherServlet.setApplicationContext(context);
messageDispatcherServlet.setTransformWsdlLocations(true);
return new ServletRegistrationBean(messageDispatcherServlet,
"/ws/*");
}
 Questions
How do you generate a WSDL using Spring Web
Services?
@Bean(name = "courses")
public DefaultWsdl11Definition defaultWsdl11Definition(XsdSchema co
DefaultWsdl11Definition definition = new DefaultWsdl11Definition(
definition.setPortTypeName("CoursePort");
definition.setTargetNamespace("http://in28minutes.com/courses"
definition.setLocationUri("/ws");
definition.setSchema(coursesSchema);
return definition;
}

@Bean
public XsdSchema coursesSchema() {
return new SimpleXsdSchema(
new ClassPathResource("course-details.xsd"));
}
 Questions
How do you implement error handling for SOAP Web
Services?
What is a SOAP Fault?
 Endpoint
@PayloadRoot(namespace = "http://in28minutes.com/courses",
localPart = "GetCourseDetailsRequest")
@ResponsePayload
public GetCourseDetailsResponse processCourseDetailsRequest
(@RequestPayload GetCourseDetailsRequest request) {

Course course = service.findById(request.getId());

if (course == null)
throw new CourseNotFoundException("Invalid Course Id " + reques

return mapCourseDetails(course);
}
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/
<SOAP-ENV:Header/>
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<SOAP-ENV:Fault>
<faultcode>SOAP-ENV:Server</faultcode>
<faultstring xml:lang="en">Invalid Course Id 1000</faul
</SOAP-ENV:Fault>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
@SoapFault(
faultCode = FaultCode.CUSTOM,
customFaultCode =
"{http://in28minutes.com/courses}001_COURSE_NOT_FOUND"
)
public class CourseNotFoundException extends RuntimeException {
}
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/
<SOAP-ENV:Header />
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<SOAP-ENV:Fault>
<faultcode xmlns:ns0="http://in28minutes.com/courses">
ns0:001_COURSE_NOT_FOUND</faultcode>
<faultstring xml:lang="en">
Invalid Course Id 1234</faultstring>
</SOAP-ENV:Fault>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
RESTful Web
Services
Questions
What is REST?
REpresentational State Transfer
REST is a style of so ware architecture
for distributed hypermedia systems
Make best use of HTTP
 Key abstraction - Resource
A resource has an URI (Uniform Resource Identifier)
/users/Ranga/todos/1
/users/Ranga/todos
/users/Ranga
 Example
Create a User - POST /users
Delete a User - DELETE /users/1
Get all Users - GET /users
Get one Users - GET /users/1
 REST
Data Exchange Format
No Restriction. JSON is popular
Transport
Only HTTP
Service Definition
No Standard. WADL/Swagger/...
 Questions
What are the Best Practices of RESTful Services?
Best Practices in
RESTful Design
Consumer First
Make best use of
HTTP
Request Methods
GET
POST
PUT
DELETE
Response Status
200 - SUCCESS
404 - RESOURCE NOT FOUND
400 - BAD REQUEST
201 - CREATED
401 - UNAUTHORIZED
500 - SERVER ERROR
No Secure Info in URI
Use Plurals
Prefer /users to /user
Prefer /users/1 to /user/1
 Questions
Can you show the code for an example Get Resource
method with Spring REST?
What happens when we return a bean from a
Request Mapping Method?
What is GetMapping and what are the related
methods available in Spring MVC?
@GetMapping("/users")
public List<User> retrieveAllUsers() {
return service.findAll();
}
 Questions
Can you show the code for an example Post
Resource method with Spring REST?
Why do we use ResponseEntity in a RESTful Service?
@PostMapping("/users")
public ResponseEntity<Object> createUser(
@Valid @RequestBody User user) {
User savedUser = service.save(user);

URI location = ServletUriComponentsBuilder

.fromCurrentRequest()
.path("/{id}")
.buildAndExpand(savedUser.getId()).toUri();

return ResponseEntity.created(location).build();

}
 Questions
What is HATEOAS?
Can you give an Example Response for HATEOAS?
How do we implement it using Spring?
 HATEOAS
Hypermedia as The Engine of Application State
Example
When requested for details of a facebook post, we
return
Link for actions to like, unlike or comment on
the post
{
"id": 1,
"name": "Adam",
"birthDate": "2017-07-19T09:26:18.337+0000",
"_links": {
"all-users": {
"href": "http://localhost:8080/users"
}
}
}
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-hateoas</artifactId>
</dependency>
@GetMapping("/users/{id}")
public Resource<User> retrieveUser
(@PathVariable int id) {
User user = service.findOne(id);

Resource<User> resource = new Resource<User>(user);

ControllerLinkBuilder linkTo =
linkTo(methodOn(this.getClass()).retrieveAllUsers());

resource.add(linkTo.withRel("all-users"));

return resource;
}
 Questions
How do you document RESTful web services?
Can you give a brief idea about Swagger
Documentation?
How do you automate generation of Swagger
Documentation from RESTful Web Services?
How do you add custom information to Swagger
Documentation generated from RESTful Web
Services?
What is Swagger-UI?
OpenAPI Specification (formerly called the Swagger
Specification).

The specification creates the RESTful

contract for your API, detailing all of its
resources and operations in a human
and machine readable format for easy
development, discovery, and
integration.
<dependency>
<groupId>io.springfox</groupId>
<artifactId>springfox-swagger2</artifactId>
<version>2.4.0</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>io.springfox</groupId>
<artifactId>springfox-swagger-ui</artifactId>
<version>2.4.0</version>
</dependency>
@Configuration
@EnableSwagger2
public class SwaggerConfig {

@Bean
public Docket api() {
return new Docket(DocumentationType.SWAGGER_2);
}
}
public static final Contact DEFAULT_CONTACT = new Contact(
"Ranga Karanam", "http://www.in28minutes.com", "in28minutes@gma

public static final ApiInfo DEFAULT_API_INFO = new ApiInfo(

"Awesome API Title", "Awesome API Description", "1.0",
"urn:tos", DEFAULT_CONTACT,
"Apache 2.0", "http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0");

private static final Set<String> DEFAULT_PRODUCES_AND_CONSUMES =

new HashSet<String>(Arrays.asList("application/json",
"application/xml"));
@Bean
public Docket api() {
return new Docket(DocumentationType.SWAGGER_2)
.apiInfo(DEFAULT_API_INFO)
.produces(DEFAULT_PRODUCES_AND_CONSUMES)
.consumes(DEFAULT_PRODUCES_AND_CONSUMES);
}
 Customizing
@ApiModel(description="All details about the user.")
@Entity
public class User {

@Size(min=2, message="Name should have atleast 2 characters")

@ApiModelProperty(notes="Name should have atleast 2 characters"
private String name;
 Questions
What is "Representation" of a Resource?
What is Content Negotiation?
Which HTTP Header is used for Content
Negotiation?
How do we implement it using Spring Boot?
How do you add XML support to your RESTful
Services built with Spring Boot?
A resource can have different representations
XML
HTML
JSON
 GET http://localhost:8080/users
[
{
"id": 2,
"name": "Eve",
"birthDate": "2017-07-19T04:40:20.796+0000"
},
{
"id": 3,
"name": "Jack",
"birthDate": "2017-07-19T04:40:20.796+0000"
}
]
 GET http://localhost:8080/users
Accept application/xml
<List>
<item>
<id>2</id>
<name>Eve</name>
<birthDate>2017-07-19T10:25:20.450+0000</birthDate>
</item>
<item>
<id>3</id>
<name>Jack</name>
<birthDate>2017-07-19T10:25:20.450+0000</birthDate>
</item>
</List>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-dataformat-xml</artifactId>
</dependency>
 Questions
How do you implement Exception Handling for
RESTFul Web Services?
What are the different error status that you would
return in RESTful Web Services?
How would you implement them using Spring Boot?
How do you handle Validation Errors with RESTful
Web Services?
Response Status
200 - SUCCESS
201 - CREATED
404 - RESOURCE NOT FOUND
400 - BAD REQUEST
401 - UNAUTHORIZED
500 - SERVER ERROR
GET http://localhost:8080/users/1000
Get request to a non existing resource.
{
"timestamp": "2017-07-19T05:28:37.534+0000"
"status": 500,
"error": "Not Found",
"message": "id-500",
"path": "/users/500"
}
@ResponseStatus(HttpStatus.NOT_FOUND)
public class UserNotFoundException extends RuntimeException {
GET http://localhost:8080/users/1000
Get request to a non existing resource.
Default Spring Boot Structure.
{
"timestamp": "2017-07-19T05:28:37.534+0000"
"status": 404,
"error": "Not Found",
"message": "id-500",
"path": "/users/500"
}
GET http://localhost:8080/users/1000
Get request to a non existing resource.
The response shows a Customized Message
Structure
{
"timestamp": "2017-07-19T05:31:01.961+0000",
"message": "id-500",
"details": "Any details you would want to add"
}
public class ExceptionResponse {
private Date timestamp;
private String message;
private String details;
@ControllerAdvice
@RestController
public class CustomizedResponseEntityExceptionHandler
extends ResponseEntityExceptionHandler {
@ExceptionHandler(Exception.class)
public final ResponseEntity<Object> handleAllExceptions
(Exception ex, WebRequest request) {
ExceptionResponse exceptionResponse
= new ExceptionResponse(new Date(), ex.getMessage(),
request.getDescription(false));
return new ResponseEntity(exceptionResponse,
HttpStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
}
@ExceptionHandler(UserNotFoundException.class)
public final ResponseEntity<Object> handleUserNotFoundException
UserNotFoundException ex, WebRequest request) {
ExceptionResponse exceptionResponse =
new ExceptionResponse(new Date(), ex.getMessage(),
request.getDescription(false));

return new ResponseEntity(exceptionResponse,

HttpStatus.NOT_FOUND);
}
POST http://localhost:8080/users with
Validation Errors
{
"name": "R",
"birthDate": "2000-07-19T04:29:24.054+0000"
}
 Response - 400 Bad Request
{
"timestamp": "2017-07-19T09:00:27.912+0000",
"message": "Validation Failed",
"details": "org.springframework.validation.BeanPropertyBindingR
1 errors\nField error in object 'user' on field 'name': rejecte
default message [Name should have atleast 2 characters]"
}
@Entity
public class User {

@Id
@GeneratedValue
private Integer id;

@Size(min=2, message="Name should have atleast 2 characters")

@ApiModelProperty(notes="Name should have atleast 2 characters"
private String name;

@Past
@ApiModelProperty(notes="Birth date should be in the past")
private Date birthDate;
@PostMapping("/users")
public ResponseEntity<Object>
createUser(@Valid @RequestBody User user) {
@Override
protected ResponseEntity<Object> handleMethodArgumentNotValid(
MethodArgumentNotValidException ex,
HttpHeaders headers, HttpStatus status, WebRequest request)
ExceptionResponse exceptionResponse = new ExceptionResponse(
new Date(), "Validation Failed",ex.getBindingResult().toStr
return new ResponseEntity(exceptionResponse, HttpStatus.BAD_REQUE
}
 Questions
Why do we need Versioning for RESTful Web
Services?
What are the versioning options that are available?
How do you implement Versioning for RESTful Web
Services?
public class PersonV1 {
private String name;

public class PersonV2 {

private Name name;

public class Name {

private String firstName;
private String lastName;
 Versioning Options
URI Versioning
http://localhost:8080/v1/person
http://localhost:8080/v2/person
Request Param Versioning
http://localhost:8080/person/param?version=1
http://localhost:8080/person/param?version=2
 Versioning Options
Header Versioning
http://localhost:8080/person/header
headers=[X-API-VERSION=1]
http://localhost:8080/person/header
headers=[X-API-VERSION=2]
 Versioning Options
MIME Time or Accept Header Versioning
http://localhost:8080/person/produces
produces=[application/vnd.company.app-
v1+json]
http://localhost:8080/person/produces
produces=[application/vnd.company.app-
v2+json]
@GetMapping("v1/person")
public PersonV1 personV1() {
return new PersonV1("Bob Charlie");
}

@GetMapping("v2/person")
public PersonV2 personV2() {
return new PersonV2(new Name("Bob", "Charlie"));
}
@GetMapping(value = "/person/param",
params = "version=1")
public PersonV1 paramV1() {
return new PersonV1("Bob Charlie");
}

@GetMapping(value = "/person/param",
params = "version=2")
public PersonV2 paramV2() {
return new PersonV2(new Name("Bob", "Charlie"));
}
@GetMapping(value = "/person/header",
headers = "X-API-VERSION=1")
public PersonV1 headerV1() {
return new PersonV1("Bob Charlie");
}

@GetMapping(value = "/person/header",
headers = "X-API-VERSION=2")
public PersonV2 headerV2() {
return new PersonV2(new Name("Bob", "Charlie"));
}
@GetMapping(value = "/person/produces",
produces = "application/vnd.company.app-v1+json")
public PersonV1 producesV1() {
return new PersonV1("Bob Charlie");
}

@GetMapping(value = "/person/produces",
produces = "application/vnd.company.app-v2+json")
public PersonV2 producesV2() {
return new PersonV2(new Name("Bob", "Charlie"));
}
 Versioning
Media type versioning (a.k.a “content negotiation”
or “accept header”)
GitHub
(Custom) headers versioning
Microso
URI Versioning
Twitter
Request Parameter versioning
Amazon
 Versioning
Factors
URI Pollution
Misuse of HTTP Headers
Caching
Can we execute the request on the browser?
API Documentation
No Perfect Solution
 Questions
Which is the client you use to test RESTful Web
Services?
How do you use Postman to execute RESTful Service
Requests?
How can you send Request Headers using Postman?
Postman
Thank You