hello-springrest

Spring REST Tutorial with IntelliJ IDEA, Gradle with tomcat-plugin, Java 7, Spring REST 3.x, Jackson

To run locally:

./gradlew tomcatRun ==> to start tomcat with app deployed
./gradlew jettyRun ==> to start jetty with app deployed

If using jettyRun, use port: 9080 instead.

REST endpoints:

• http://localhost:8080/hello-springrest/rest/hello (GET)

• http://localhost:8080/hello-springrest/rest/hello/{name} (GET)

• http://localhost:8080/hello-springrest/rest/person (GET or POST)

• http://localhost:8080/hello-springrest/rest/person/create (POST)

• http://localhost:8080/hello-springrest/rest/client (sample REST client POST - calls the /create endpoint)

  To create a sample person:

    {"firstName":"John","lastName":"Doe","age":99}
  
    //random userid is generated and returned in the response
    { firstName: "John"
    lastName: "Doe"
    age: 99
    uid: "ab48569" }
  

Will also work within Intellij IDEA by starting the local Tomcat

how to remote debug tomcatRun in IntelliJ IDEA

• create gradle.properties with the following lines:

  org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=5005
  org.gradle.daemon=true
  

• in IntelliJ IDEA, create a Run/Debug configuration to connect to the remote debugging port

  Run > Edit Configurations...
  Add new "Remote" configuration
  Keep the default *Command line arguments for running remote JVM* (matches the port)
  -agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=5005
  Name: remote tomcatRun (whatever name you want to use)
  Transport: Socket
  Debugger mode: Attach
  Host: localhost
  Port: 5005 <== should match all the configuration elsewhere
  Search sources using module's classpath: <whole project>
  

• to debug, select Run > Debug 'remote tomcatRun'

More information from here: https://github.com/bmuschko/gradle-tomcat-plugin