Spring Quick Reference Guide: A Pocket Handbook for Spring Framework, Spring Boot, and More

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11. Spring REST

Adam L. Davis¹ 

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Oviedo, FL, USA

 

REST (Representational State Transfer) outlines a way of designing web services around resources and metadata using HTTP methods like GET, POST, PUT, and PATCH to map to well-defined actions. It was first defined by Roy Fielding in his 2000 PhD dissertation “Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures” at UC Irvine.¹ A web service that adheres to these principles is called RESTful .

This chapter is primarily about two Spring projects, Spring REST Docs and Spring HATEOAS.² It builds on the content from Chapter 7, so be sure to read it first before reading this chapter. ...