REST APIs with Spring, JPA, and Springfox/

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Develop the REST Controllers

Develop the REST Controllers

Let’s learn to use annotations like `@RestController` and `@RequestMapping` to expose the REST APIs.

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Create REST controller

Create the TodoTypeController class in the io.educative.controllers package to work as a REST controller.

package io.educative.controllers;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.*;
@RestController //define TodoTypeController as REST controller
@RequestMapping("/api/todoType") //expose the REST endpoints at /api/todoType
public class TodoTypeController {
    
}

In the above code section, we see the following annotations that help expose the REST APIs:

  • The @RestController annotation combines the @Controller and @ResponseBody annotations to mark the class as a request handler and
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