Spring data REST pull

pom.xml

@@ -17,10 +17,15 @@
 		<java.version>17</java.version>
 	</properties>
 	<dependencies>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
+			<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-rest</artifactId>
+		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
 			<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
 		</dependency>
+
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
 			<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>

src/main/java/com/manumiguezz/crudapplication/rest/EmployeeRestController.java

@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 package com.manumiguezz.crudapplication.rest;
 
-import com.manumiguezz.crudapplication.dao.EmployeeDAO;
 import com.manumiguezz.crudapplication.entity.Employee;
-import com.manumiguezz.crudapplication.service.EmployeeService;
-import com.manumiguezz.crudapplication.service.EmployeeServiceImpl;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
 import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.*;
 
 import java.util.List;
@@ -12,19 +10,24 @@
 @RequestMapping("/api")
 public class EmployeeRestController {
 
-    private EmployeeService employeeService;
+    private Employee employeeService;
 
-    public EmployeeRestController (EmployeeService theEmployeeService) {
+    @Autowired
+    public EmployeeRestController(EmployeeService theEmployeeService) {
         employeeService = theEmployeeService;
     }
 
+    // expose "/employees" and return a list of employees
     @GetMapping("/employees")
-    public List<Employee> findAll(){
+    public List<Employee> findAll() {
         return employeeService.findAll();
     }
 
+    // add mapping for GET /employees/{employeeId}
+
     @GetMapping("/employees/{employeeId}")
     public Employee getEmployee(@PathVariable int employeeId) {
+
         Employee theEmployee = employeeService.findById(employeeId);
 
         if (theEmployee == null) {
@@ -34,35 +37,61 @@ public Employee getEmployee(@PathVariable int employeeId) {
         return theEmployee;
     }
 
-    @PostMapping ("/employees")
+    // add mapping for POST /employees - add new employee
+
+    @PostMapping("/employees")
     public Employee addEmployee(@RequestBody Employee theEmployee) {
 
+        // also just in case they pass an id in JSON ... set id to 0
+        // this is to force a save of new item ... instead of update
+
         theEmployee.setId(0);
 
         Employee dbEmployee = employeeService.save(theEmployee);
+
         return dbEmployee;
     }
 
+    // add mapping for PUT /employees - update existing employee
+
     @PutMapping("/employees")
     public Employee updateEmployee(@RequestBody Employee theEmployee) {
+
         Employee dbEmployee = employeeService.save(theEmployee);
+
         return dbEmployee;
     }
 
-    @DeleteMapping("/employees/{employeeId} ")
+    // add mapping for DELETE /employees/{employeeId} - delete employee
+
+    @DeleteMapping("/employees/{employeeId}")
     public String deleteEmployee(@PathVariable int employeeId) {
+
         Employee tempEmployee = employeeService.findById(employeeId);
 
+        // throw exception if null
+
         if (tempEmployee == null) {
-            throw new RuntimeException("Employee id: " + employeeId + " not found");
+            throw new RuntimeException("Employee id not found - " + employeeId);
         }
 
-        employeeService.deleteByID(employeeId);
+        employeeService.deleteById(employeeId);
 
-        return "Employee with id: " + employeeId + " was deleted";
+        return "Deleted employee id - " + employeeId;
     }
 
+}
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-}

src/main/resources/application.properties

@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 
 spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/employee_directory
 spring.datasource.username=springstudent
-spring.datasource.password=springstudent
+spring.datasource.password=springstudent
+
+spring.data.rest.base-path=/company-api
+spring.data.rest.default-page-size=40

target/classes/application.properties

@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 
 spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/employee_directory
 spring.datasource.username=springstudent
-spring.datasource.password=springstudent
+spring.datasource.password=springstudent
+
+spring.data.rest.base-path=/company-api
+spring.data.rest.default-page-size=40