Following is the body of POST
request to my endpoint:
{
"availabilityMap":
{
"2021-07-18":["9AM-10AM", "OT"],
"2021-07-19":["9AM-10AM", "OPD"],
.
.
}
}
and following is the skeleton of my controller:
@PostMapping(value = "/appointment", consumes = MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE,
produces= MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE)
public ResponseEntity newAppointment(@RequestBody /* WHAT TO PUT HERE?*/) {
}
How do I define an entity so that the @RequestBody
is automatically converted to an entity? Is that possible?
CodePudding user response:
In general, we prepare dto or resource for request and response. If your requests or responses are related to the database, it should be dto, otherwise you should mark it as a resource and you can perform automatic mapping operations using MapStruct.
@Data
public class RequestDto {
public Map<String, List<String>> availabilityMap;
}
CodePudding user response:
public class RequestVO {
public Map<String, List<String>> availabilityMap;
public Map<String, List<String>> getAvailabilityMap() {
return availabilityMap;
}
public void setAvailabilityMap(Map<String, List<String>> availabilityMap) {
this.availabilityMap = availabilityMap;
}
}
{}
can be represented as an object or a map, and []
can be represented as an implementation class of a Collection. (Commonly used are List and Set, which are also interfaces. The specific classes are specified by the sequence number framework. You can also use implementation classes such as HashMap.) For {}
, using an object or a map depends on whether the field is fixed or not. In the example, availabilityMap
is a fixed-name field, so the object is used. 2021-07-18
is an indefinite date or other class, so use Map. For one object, if its field is another object, you may need to write a new java class.