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Spring: Microservices with Spring Boot
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Spring: Microservices with Spring Boot

by In28Minutes Official
March 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
140 pages
2h 42m
English
Packt Publishing
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Creating a Todo Resource

We will focus on creating REST services for a basic todo management system. We will create services for the following:

  • Retrieving a list of todos for a given user
  • Retrieving details for a specific todo
  • Creating a todo for a user

Request Methods, Operations, and Uris

One of the best practices of REST services is to use the appropriate HTTP request method based on the action we perform. In the services we exposed until now, we used the GET method, as we focused on services that read data.

The following table shows the appropriate HTTP Request method based on the operation that we perform:

HTTP Request Method

Operation

GET

Read--Retrieve details for a resource

POST

Create--Create a new item or resource

PUT

Update/replace ...

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ISBN: 9781789132588Supplemental Content