Practical Microservices Architectural Patterns: Event-Based Java Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud

© Binildas Christudas 2019

Binildas ChristudasPractical Microservices Architectural Patternshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4501-9_23

cURL and Postman

Binildas Christudas¹ 

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Trivandrum, Kerala, India

 

cURL is a command line tool for getting or sending files using the URL syntax. cURL supports a range of common Internet protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, and LDAP, out of which HTTP is of interest for our discussions in this book.

Postman is a UI-based app that can be used to carry out all HTTP actions in an easier manner. I will introduce this app, too.

The “Performing Data Operations Using Spring Boot and MongoDB” section in Chapter 7 introduced a sample Spring Boot application. You used Spring Data REST there to create implementations ...