I was never able to get this to work simple using annotations. To get it to work, I created a ContextResolver for ObjectMapper, then I added the JSR310Module (update: now it is JavaTimeModule instead), along with one more caveat, which was the need to set write-date-as-timestamp to false. See more at the documentation for the … Read more
There are several approaches to customize the error handling behavior with JAX-RS. Here are three of the easier ways. The first approach is to create an Exception class that extends WebApplicationException. Example: public class NotAuthorizedException extends WebApplicationException { public NotAuthorizedException(String message) { super(Response.status(Response.Status.UNAUTHORIZED) .entity(message).type(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN).build()); } } And to throw this newly create Exception you simply: … Read more
Here’s an example: @GET @Path(“retrieve/{uuid}”) public Response retrieveSomething(@PathParam(“uuid”) String uuid) { if(uuid == null || uuid.trim().length() == 0) { return Response.serverError().entity(“UUID cannot be blank”).build(); } Entity entity = service.getById(uuid); if(entity == null) { return Response.status(Response.Status.NOT_FOUND).entity(“Entity not found for UUID: ” + uuid).build(); } String json = //convert entity to json return Response.ok(json, MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON).build(); } Take … Read more
400 is the best choice in both cases. If you want to further clarify the error you can either change the Reason Phrase or include a body to explain the error. 412 – Precondition failed is used for conditional requests when using last-modified date and ETags. 403 – Forbidden is used when the server wishes … Read more
REST may not be a standard as such, but reading up on general REST documentation and blog posts should give you some guidelines for a good way to structure API URLs. Most rest APIs tend to only have resource names and resource IDs in the path. Such as: /departments/{dept}/employees/{id} Some REST APIs use query strings … Read more
How token-based authentication works In token-based authentication, the client exchanges hard credentials (such as username and password) for a piece of data called token. For each request, instead of sending the hard credentials, the client will send the token to the server to perform authentication and then authorization. In a few words, an authentication scheme … Read more