Add Flyway migrations to your Spring Boot project
Having automated database migrations will significantly ease managing schema development. With Spring Boot support we can effortlessly handle versioned SQL scripts.
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Add a PostgreSQL database to your Spring Boot project
An in-memory database may be sufficient during the early phase of project development. However, sooner or later you will need to persist some data. Read this post to learn how to configure a Spring Boot app to use a PostgreSQL database.
Spring Boot API documentation with Swagger
Each API requires comprehensive documentaiton. You can generate it using Swagger for a REST API. Its clients will get standardized and thorough insight while you won’t need to worry about keeping it up to date. Learn how to configure Swagger, generate documentation in JSON and render it with Swagger UI when frontend is supported by Angular.
ManyToOne bidirectional association in Hibernate — common issues solved
This post covers issues that may occur when you map entities with ManyToOne bidirectional association. Read about mapping this relation while avoiding LazyInitializatinException, circular dependencies, n+1 select problem, wasting resources and false-positives in tests.
Securing your Spring Boot and Angular app with JWT #2 – Backend
In this article you can read about applying Spring Security to the backend module of a Spring Boot and Angular app. Check out how to configure security, generate JWT tokens and protect API endpoints.
Securing your Spring Boot and Angular app with JWT #1 – Introduction
You can use the JSON Web Token standard as a part of your authentication and authorisation solution in a project built with Spring Boot and Angular. Check out this post to learn how to apply Spring Security, AuthGuard and JWT to your apps.
Show Hibernate SQL queries with values in Spring Boot
When debugging a hibernate related issue, it is useful to examine queries in the console. Check out how to print them with binding parameters.
Handle requests for a non-existent resource using Java Optional in a REST controller
When an API is asked for a resource that can’t be found, it is expected to return the HTTP 404 response code. To meet this requirement we don’t need to clutter our application logic with throwing exceptions and dealing with them along the way.
How to add pagination to a Spring Boot app
Providing pagination for displaying large set of data will improve user experience and reduce the response time. Spring Boot comes with out-of-the-box solution for handling pagination, so let’s check how to implement it in an example application.
How to get json response only with an id of the related entity
Fetching entities with complex relationships can consume a lot of resources during calls to your API. To minimize the size of the requested json string, you can use the LAZY fetch type. This will result in accessing only the serialized object and its properties – without considering its relations. But often you need to obtain the identifiers of the associated objects as well. Check out how to fetch an entity with an id of a related object while preserving proper serialization and deserialization.