BOOK API - Spring Boot, MySQL, JPA Rest API Tutorial

Build Restful CRUD API for a simple Book-Manage application using Spring MVC, Mysql and Hibernate.

Requirements

1. Java - 1.8.x

2. Maven - 3.3.9

3. MySQL - 5.7.12

Steps to Setup

1. Clone the application

git clone https://github.com/scbushan05/book-api-spring-boot.git

2. Create Mysql database

create database bookdb

3. Change mysql username and password as per your installation

• open src/main/resources/db.properties

• change mysql.user and mysql.password as per your mysql installation

4. Build and run the app using maven

mvn package
java -jar target/bookapi-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar

Alternatively, you can run the app without packaging it using -

mvn spring-boot:run

The app will start running at http://localhost:8080.

Explore Rest APIs

The app defines following CRUD APIs.

GET /api/book

POST /api/book

GET /api/book/{bookId}

PUT /api/book/{bookId}

DELETE /api/book/{bookId}

You can test them using postman or any other rest client.

Learn more

You can find the tutorial for this application on my blog -