Hibernate many to many relation demo with spring boot REST API and json never ending recursion protection
This is example project for post on blog bartoszkomin.blogspot.com, please go there to find more informations.
To run project you need:
- maven
- java 8
You don't need to install any database, it works with embeded "in memory" HyperSQL Database. It contains also embeded tomcat server.
To run project follow steps:
- mvn install
- on project folder run: java -jar target/hibernate-many-to-many-demo-1.0.jar
- use your favorite application to test API endpoints (for example: Advanced REST client in chrome, Postman, or simple curl command) for example: GET http://localhost:8080/users
You can use this curl commands to test endpoints:
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To add books
curl -i -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"name": "The Meaning of Relativity"}' http://127.0.0.1:8080/books -
To add users with book:
curl -i -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"name": "Albert Einstein", "books":[{"id":1}]}' http://127.0.0.1:8080/users -
To get the all users:
curl -i -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://127.0.0.1:8080/users -
To get the all books:
curl -i -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://127.0.0.1:8080/books -
To get single user:
curl -i -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://127.0.0.1:8080/users/1 -
To get single book:
curl -i -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://127.0.0.1:8080/books/1