Hands-On Spring Security 5 for Reactive Applications

Running the application

Using the mongod command, we will start the locally installed MongoDB and then using the following command, we will start the project we just created:

mvn spring-boot:run

Head over to postman and call the URL http://localhost:8080/movies (GET). You will see an array with zero elements in it. Now, call the URL http://localhost:8080/movies (POST), with the following JSON in the body:

{   "id": 1,   "title": "testtitle",   "genre": "thriller"}

You will get a 200 OK status, and should see the newly created JSON as a response. Now, if you run the GET request on movies endpoint, you should see the newly created Movie as a response.

Here, we implemented CRUD in our Movie model by using MongoDB as a persistence store in a reactive ...