Practice Creating A Rest Controller (18.3.2) - Building RESTful APIs Using Java (Spring Boot / Java EE)

Practice: Creating a REST Controller

Lesson 18.3.2Building RESTful APIs Using Java (Spring Boot / Java EE)

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6 sample questions

Question 1.
What is the purpose of the Employee entity class?
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Think about what data needs to be stored for an Employee.
Question 2.
Which dependency must be added to create a RESTful API in Spring Boot?
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What do you need for web applications in Spring?
3Question 3.
What is the first step in creating a REST controller in Spring Boot?
- Add dependencies
- Create entity class
- Write business logic
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Think about what you need to work with before coding.
4Question 4.
True or False: A REST controller must include the @RestController annotation.
- True
- False
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What does this annotation signify?
Question 5.
Create an additional method in the EmployeeController for handling a scenario where you need to fetch an employee by their ID. What would the method look like?
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A GET request that fetches a resource by ID. Think about how you already got all employees.
Question 6.
Consider a scenario where your application needs to enforce data validation on the Employee entity. How would you approach this in your class and in methods?
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Remember to think about data integrity and user inputs.

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