Connecting To Forbes400
Explore how to connect a Spring Boot application to the Forbes400 API during startup. Understand the use of ApplicationRunner to load and refresh database data before the application begins handling requests, ensuring dynamic billionaire data is fetched and persisted effectively.
Connecting to forbes400 during application startup
We can connect to the Forbes 400 API during startup. The question is where to write our logic because the application should not accept any traffic before DB is completely filled.
As usual spring framework has a built-in solution for the above problem.
We can utilize ApplicationRunner/CommandLineRunner interfaces from spring boot.
Contract of above classes is well suited for tasks that should run after application startup but before it starts accepting traffic. ...