In this section, you will learn how to create a RESTful web service. The concepts explained earlier in this chapter will be used.
The following are some of the key aspects of creating a RESTful web service. Let's take the example of retrieving the doctors' list based on the specialties, location, and so on.
- Create a controller representing the RESTful endpoint: In the following code, note the usage of the @RestController annotation, which is used to represent the annotation @Controller and @ResponseBody. The controller has a method, searchDoctor, for handling the request represented using the URL such as /doctors?location=xxx&speciality=yyy. Note the @RequestMapping annotation and its attributes, especially, ...
