Elite Club Search Web Service
Enhance the Elite Club application with a RESTful search endpoint.
We'll cover the following...
Objective
In this chapter, we will expose the REST endpoint for the CRUD and search operation in the Elite Club application.
Elite club APIs
We saw how easy it is to create a Restful web service using Spring Boot. We will be exposing the following methods over HTTP.
| URI | HTTP Method | Description |
|---|---|---|
| /club | GET | Get all clubs |
| /club/{id} | GET | Get one club with requsted id |
| /club/{id} | DELETE | Delete club with requsted id |
| /club | POST | Create new club |
| /club/{id} | PUT | Modify club with requested id |
| /club/serach?searchTerm=? | GET | Search club with search term |
Add a club
We already have business logic to add a club into DB available into our service EliteClubService.java
To expose the RESTendpoint for this operation we need to identify the correct HTTP verb to be used. If we _think of the club _ as a resource, then adding a club is nothing but creating a resource.
The obvious choice is to use HTTP POST.
The POST endpoint will look like the following code snippet:
@PostMapping(path = "/club", produces =