Jackson Bitrate Support with JSR 385

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Many interesting libraries are created through the Java Specification Requests process. Many of them are incorporated directly into the JDK, but some exist as independent libraries. Some time ago I wrote about the Moneta library. This article is about a Jackson use case for Indriya, the JSR 385 (Units of Measurement API) reference implementation.

Consumer Contract Testing

Anyone who has ever worked with Web APIs, and who hasn’t, will be aware of the difficulties of testing in an API environment. When testing an API, there are two sides to consider, that of the producer and that of the consumer. If both do not work hand in hand, then problems are inevitable. Consumer contract tests are designed to avoid some of the difficulties in API testing.

REST endpoints with filters

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This article is a slightly updated English version of the article “REST Endpunkte mit Filtern”.

In addition to sorting and pagination, filtering is a fairly common action on REST endpoints. In contrast to the first two, however, there is no adequate solution for filtering in the Spring Boot framework. With little effort, however, this can be elegantly implemented with the Spring Boot tools.

REST Endpoints annotated for Cache-Control

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Spring Boot endpoints can be formulated briefly and concisely. Their return values are automatically converted into suitable responses. Occasionally, the developer has to fall back on the ResponseEntity class as a return value. This is the case, for example, when additional HTTP headers are required, such as the Cache-Control header.

Validieren von Telefonnummern

Im letzten Beitrag wurde für die Klasse InternationalTelephoneNumber aus dem Projekt Telephone ein Serialisierer und ein Deserialisierer für Jackson erstellt. Damit ist es möglich diese Klasse direkt in REST Request einzusetzen. Zusätzlich wäre eine Validierung der Telefonnummern wünschenswert. Auf diese Weise könnten Telefonnummern mit speziellen Vorwahlen oder Durchwahlen abgelehnt werden.