API to Create a New Product
Explore how to develop an API for creating new products in a Spring Boot backend. Understand constructing product models, repositories, services, and controllers, and learn to use Data Transfer Objects for better API design. By the end, you will be able to implement and test product creation endpoints that link products to categories in an e-commerce application.
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Introduction
As part of building an e-commerce application, we’ve already built the back-end for categories.
The most important part of an online shop is products. We’re going to create product back-end APIs.
Now that we have some categories, it’s time to make the product APIs. First, we’ll create the model, then we’ll create the repository, then we’ll make the service. Finally, we’ll create and test the controller.
Model
The product will have an id, name, imageURL, price ...