Tag: API

January 2, 2023 coding

You don’t need auto-incremented primary keys for your Entities anymore

Everyone knows that primary keys need for identifying rows (subjects) in database tables and for tables linking.

And databases are indifferent to what thees keys are in their nature.

But circumstances are not.

So why do you still use artificial autoincremented primary keys?

September 7, 2022 coding

‘At least one’ validator

Are you familiar with Java Validation API? And Spring validation? (if not, take a look at the end of this article for links to read)

In my practice I had an interesting case. The task was to implement an web endpoint accepting the request which body consisted of three fields. And only one of them must be specified at the time.

August 12, 2022 coding

How to deal with Money model when constructing API in Java

Most of Enterprise projects are about money. And most of them implement an API.

API implements the way the datum are migrating from one application to another one. The money consists of an amount and a currency. The amount may be fractional.

So this post is about how to deal with fractional amount of money when implementing an API in Java.