Week-9-Exercise

[MNuenninghoff]

@pawaitemadisoncollege The week 9 exercise is ready for review.

1. Key learning points

   • It is best practice to respond with JSON
   • Following naming conventions for URIs helps with ease of use for the service

2. Challenges

   • I realized that if the service was given an id for a talent that was not in the database, the result was a 500 internal server error. I wanted change that to a 404 not found error instead. I added a try-catch block and built a response with a 404 status in the event of a null pointer exception.

3. Resources

   • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41591107/detect-last-foreach-loop-iteration - used for a strategy to check for the last iteration of a for-each loop.

[pawaitemadisoncollege]

Hi @MNuenninghoff! This is a good first go at creating a restful service with java code. You did a nice job with best practices related to naming - something that many miss! This work should set you up really well for the team project.

One thing: the Jackson library can help make it easier to turn a java object into json: https://www.baeldung.com/jackson-object-mapper-tutorial. Here they are writing to a file, but I think you'll get the idea!