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Create RestController HTTP POST method

Create RestController HTTP POST method

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Create RestController HTTP POST method

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- [Instructor] Now let's implement an API to create a TourRating. But can all the attributes of a TourRating be sent in the request body? Well, let's look at TourRating. We have a integer score and a string comment, yeah that's fine sending on a HTTP payload. Let's look at TourRatingPk. Ah, so we have a tour, which is a type tour and a customer ID, which is integer. Customer ID is fine but I don't think a client would want to send an entire tour as part of the request body, they would likely just use a tour identifier. So we should create a data transfer object to encapsulate the request body. And that's what I've done in RatingDto. So in this web packet I have RatingDto and the attributes are score, a comment, and a customer ID. We don't have a tour ID in here. And that's because that's going to be a parameter on the URL. So we can apply Java validations here. The minimum score is zero, the maximum score is five.…

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