Servlet Web Applications

If you want to build servlet-based web applications, you can take advantage of Spring Boot’s auto-configuration for Spring MVC or Jersey.

The “Spring Web MVC Framework”

The Spring Web MVC framework (often referred to as “Spring MVC”) is a rich “model view controller” web framework. Spring MVC lets you create special @Controller or @RestController beans to handle incoming HTTP requests. Methods in your controller are mapped to HTTP by using @RequestMapping annotations.

The following code shows a typical @RestController that serves JSON data:

Java
Kotlin

import java.util.List;

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.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;

@RestController
@RequestMapping("/users")
public class MyRestController {

	private final UserRepository userRepository;

	private final CustomerRepository customerRepository;

	public MyRestController(UserRepository userRepository, CustomerRepository customerRepository) {
		this.userRepository = userRepository;
		this.customerRepository = customerRepository;
	}

	@GetMapping("/{userId}")
	public User getUser(@PathVariable Long userId) {
		return this.userRepository.findById(userId).get();
	}

	@GetMapping("/{userId}/customers")
	public List<Customer> getUserCustomers(@PathVariable Long userId) {
		return this.userRepository.findById(userId).map(this.customerRepository::findByUser).get();
	}

	@DeleteMapping("/{userId}")
	public void deleteUser(@PathVariable Long userId) {
		this.userRepository.deleteById(userId);
	}

}

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.RequestMapping
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController


@RestController
@RequestMapping("/users")
class MyRestController(private val userRepository: UserRepository, private val customerRepository: CustomerRepository) {

	@GetMapping("/{userId}")
	fun getUser(@PathVariable userId: Long): User {
		return userRepository.findById(userId).get()
	}

	@GetMapping("/{userId}/customers")
	fun getUserCustomers(@PathVariable userId: Long): List<Customer> {
		return userRepository.findById(userId).map(customerRepository::findByUser).get()
	}

	@DeleteMapping("/{userId}")
	fun deleteUser(@PathVariable userId: Long) {
		userRepository.deleteById(userId)
	}

}

“WebMvc.fn”, the functional variant, separates the routing configuration from the actual handling of the requests, as shown in the following example:

Java
Kotlin

import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.http.MediaType;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.function.RequestPredicate;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.function.RouterFunction;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.function.ServerResponse;

import static org.springframework.web.servlet.function.RequestPredicates.accept;
import static org.springframework.web.servlet.function.RouterFunctions.route;

@Configuration(proxyBeanMethods = false)
public class MyRoutingConfiguration {

	private static final RequestPredicate ACCEPT_JSON = accept(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON);

	@Bean
	public RouterFunction<ServerResponse> routerFunction(MyUserHandler userHandler) {
		return route()
				.GET("/{user}", ACCEPT_JSON, userHandler::getUser)
				.GET("/{user}/customers", ACCEPT_JSON, userHandler::getUserCustomers)
				.DELETE("/{user}", ACCEPT_JSON, userHandler::deleteUser)
				.build();
	}

}

import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration
import org.springframework.http.MediaType
import org.springframework.web.servlet.function.RequestPredicates.accept
import org.springframework.web.servlet.function.RouterFunction
import org.springframework.web.servlet.function.RouterFunctions
import org.springframework.web.servlet.function.ServerResponse

@Configuration(proxyBeanMethods = false)
class MyRoutingConfiguration {

	@Bean
	fun routerFunction(userHandler: MyUserHandler): RouterFunction<ServerResponse> {
		return RouterFunctions.route()
			.GET("/{user}", ACCEPT_JSON, userHandler::getUser)
			.GET("/{user}/customers", ACCEPT_JSON, userHandler::getUserCustomers)
			.DELETE("/{user}", ACCEPT_JSON, userHandler::deleteUser)
			.build()
	}

	companion object {
		private val ACCEPT_JSON = accept(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
	}

}

Java
Kotlin

import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.function.ServerRequest;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.function.ServerResponse;