I am a begineer in java development but has previous experience on programming languages like PHP and Python. So little confused on how to proceed on spring boot with the development.
I am developing a rest API which has the following request
{
"key":"value",
"key1":"value1",
"platform_settings":[
{"key":"value"}
]
}
What I did
I created a RestController which accepts the http request and created a function for the resource
public Share share(@RequestBody final Share share) {
LOGGER.debug("This is the request", share);
return share; //
}
Question 1 : If it was any other programming language like PHP or Python, there will be helper function which will accept the json request and convert it to object which I can easily work on.
In python it is as simple as
import json
import requests
response = requests.get(...)
json_data = json.loads(response.text)
//can work on json_data anyway I want.
But in java, I will have to create a POJO class, or have jackson/JPA entity as dependency which will map the request to a Class (Which I should predefine with the requests).
Is there any better way I can do this? For every request I make, I will have to create a Class which the request can be mapped to and I will have to define the class
Entity
package com.payunow.socialsharemodule.models;
import java.util.Map;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue;
import javax.persistence.GenerationType;
import javax.persistence.Id;
@Entity
public class Share {
@Id
@GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
private Long id;
private String key;
private String key1;
private Map<String,String> platform_settings;
public Share(String name, String description,Map<String,String> platform_settings) {
this.key = key;
this.key1 = key1;
this.platform_settings = platform_settings;
}
//for JPA
public Share() {}
public String getKey() {
return key;
}
public String getKey1() {
return key1;
}
public Map<String,String> getPlatform_settings() {
return platform_settings;
}
}
For every request I make, I will have to create a class defining all its variables inside. Is this the only way to do this?