Spring Boot REST CRUD Application with POSTMAN Client

POSTMAN Tool

Postman is an interactive and automatic tool for verifying the APIs of the
project. Postman is a Google Chrome App for interacting with HTTP APIs

Download POSTMAN

url: https://www.postman.com/downloads

HTTP Methods

GET – Read Operation (Select Command)

POST – Write / Create Operation (Insert Command)

PUT – Update Operation (Update Command)

DELETE – Delete Operation (Delete Command)

- Create table “ticket” in MySQL

mysql>create table ticket (ticket_id int(3),passenger_name varchar(10),
source_station varchar(15), dest_station varchar(15), email varchar(20));

- Create a Spring Starter Project in STS

Name : SpringBootRESTCRUDProj
Type : Maven Project
Java Version: 8/17/21
Group : com.rest.springboot
Artifact: RestSpringBootCRUDProj
Package : com.rest.springboot
Click Next

Add the following project dependencies

o Spring Web
o Spring Data JPA
o MySQL Driver
o Lombok
 Click Finish

- Create a package “com.rest.springboot.entities” in src/main/java folder

- Create a Java Bean class “Ticket” in “com.rest.springboot.entities”
package

Ticket.java

package com.rest.springboot.entities;

import jakarta.persistence.Column;
import jakarta.persistence.Entity;
import jakarta.persistence.Id;
import jakarta.persistence.Table;
import lombok.AllArgsConstructor;
import lombok.Data;
import lombok.NoArgsConstructor;

@Entity
@Table(name="ticket")
@Data
@AllArgsConstructor
@NoArgsConstructor
public class Ticket {
@Id
@Column(name="ticket_id")
private Integer ticketId;

@Column(name="passenger_name",nullable=false)
private String passengerName;

@Column(name="source_station")
private String sourceStation;

@Column(name="dest_station")
private String destStation;

@Column(name="email")
private String email;
}
 - Create a package “com.rest.springboot.repository” in src/main/java
folder
- Create an interface “TicketBookingRepository” in
com.rest.springboot.repository package

TicketBookingRepository.java

package com.rest.springboot.repository;

import org.springframework.data.jpa.repository.JpaRepository;

import com.rest.springboot.entities.Ticket;

@Repository

public interface TicketBookingRepository extends JpaRepository<Ticket,

Integer>{

- Create a package “com.rest.springboot.service” in src/main/java folder

- Create a Service class “TicketBookingService” in com.rest.springboot.service
package

TicketBookingService.java
package com.rest.springboot.service;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;
import com.rest.springboot.repository.TicketBookingRepository;
import com.rest.springboot.entities.Ticket;
import java.util.List;
@Service
public class TicketBookingService {
@Autowired
private TicketBookingRepository ticketBookingRepository;

public Ticket createTicket(Ticket ticket) {

return ticketBookingRepository.save(ticket);
}
 public Ticket getTicketById(Integer ticketId) {
return ticketBookingRepository.findById(ticketId).get();
}
public List<Ticket> getAllBookedTickets() {
return ticketBookingRepository.findAll();
}
public void deleteTicket(Integer ticketId) {
ticketBookingRepository.deleteById(ticketId);
}
public Ticket updateTicket(Integer ticketId, String newEmail)
{
Ticket ticketFromDb =
ticketBookingRepository.findById(ticketId).get();
ticketFromDb.setEmail(newEmail);
Ticket upadedTicket = ticketBookingRepository.save(ticketFromDb);
return upadedTicket;
}
}

- Create a package “com.rest.springboot.controller” in src/main/java

folder
- Create a Rest Controller class “TicketBookingController” in
com.rest.springboot.controller package

TicketBookingController.java
package com.rest.springboot.controller;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.DeleteMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.GetMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.PathVariable;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.PostMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.PutMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestBody;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
import com.rest.springboot.entities.Ticket;
import com.rest.springboot.service.TicketBookingService;
import java.util.List;

@RestController
@RequestMapping(value="/api/tickets")
public class TicketBookingController {
 @Autowired
private TicketBookingService ticketBookingService;

@PostMapping(value="/create")
public Ticket createTicket(@RequestBody Ticket ticket){
return ticketBookingService.createTicket(ticket);
}

@GetMapping(value="/ticket/{ticketId}")

public Ticket getTicketById(@PathVariable("ticketId")Integer

ticketId){
return ticketBookingService.getTicketById(ticketId);
}
@GetMapping(value="/ticket/alltickets")
public List<Ticket> getAllBookedTickets(){
return ticketBookingService.getAllBookedTickets();
}

@DeleteMapping(value="/ticket/{ticketId}")
public void deleteTicket(@PathVariable("ticketId")Integer
ticketId){
ticketBookingService.deleteTicket(ticketId);
}

@PutMapping(value="/ticket/{ticketId}/{newEmail:.+}")
public Ticket updateTicket(@PathVariable("ticketId")Integer
ticketId,@PathVariable("newEmail")String newEmail){
return
ticketBookingService.updateTicket(ticketId,newEmail);
}
}
- Update application.properties file of src/main/resources folder
application.properties
spring.datasource.driver-class-name=com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/mydb
spring.datasource.username=root
spring.datasource.password=root
spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.dialect =
org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect
spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=update
spring.jpa.show-sql=true

- Run the project

Right click on RestSpringBootCRUDProj -> Run As -> Spring Boot App
Test the application using POSTMAN
Open POSTMAN and do the following requests

Create Request
POST http://localhost:8080/api/tickets/create
In Body, Select Raw and Select JSON

{"ticketId":"1", "passengerName":"Raj","sourceStation":"Hyderabad","destStation":"D
elhi","email":"raj@gmail.com"}

Click Send

Add some more records

{"ticketId":"2", "passengerName":"Ramu","sourceStation":"Chennai","destStation":"Mu
mbai","email":"ramu@gmail.com"}

{"ticketId":"3", "passengerName":"Ramya","sourceStation":"Pune","destStation":"Jaip
ur","email":"ramya@gmail.com"}

GET by Id Request
GET http://localhost:8080/api/tickets/ticket/1

GET http://localhost:8080/api/tickets/ticket/2

GET All Tickets Request

GET http://localhost:8080/api/tickets/ticket/alltickets

DELETE by Id Request

DELETE http://localhost:8080/api/tickets/ticket/1

UPDATE Request
PUT http://localhost:8080/api/tickets/ticket/2/ramu_new@gmail.com