From the course: Programming Foundations: APIs and Web Services
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Create a RESTful API
From the course: Programming Foundations: APIs and Web Services
Create a RESTful API
- [Narrator] In this video we will look at creating a custom API. This is the case where you have information or data that you'd like to share with others and the easiest way to give them access is to put an API on top of your data. I will demonstrate the process of creating an API using Java-based Spring Data REST. So this is the documentation page for Spring Data REST. Spring Data REST is a part of the umbrella Spring Data project and makes it easy to build hypermedia driven RESTful web services. So now let's navigate back to the code and that is in Intellij and let's open the Maven POM file. So you will find it here, just double click on it and notice on lines 66-69 I've included the Spring DATA rest dependency and that's all I need to do to start using Spring Data REST. So now let's look at our domain model. So you can open ticket.java and that's under domain. Double click on it. Let's make more room. So we are looking at code for a ticketing system that allows for the submission…
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