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SpringBoot_Annotations_Explained

The document provides an overview of various Spring Boot annotations, explaining their purposes and usage. Key annotations include @SpringBootApplication for bootstrapping applications, @RestController for creating RESTful services, and @Autowired for dependency injection. It also covers annotations related to entity management, configuration, and cross-origin resource sharing.

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SpringBoot_Annotations_Explained

The document provides an overview of various Spring Boot annotations, explaining their purposes and usage. Key annotations include @SpringBootApplication for bootstrapping applications, @RestController for creating RESTful services, and @Autowired for dependency injection. It also covers annotations related to entity management, configuration, and cross-origin resource sharing.

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Spring Boot Annotations - Explained

@SpringBootApplication

Combines @Configuration, @EnableAutoConfiguration, and @ComponentScan. Used in the main class to

bootstrap the Spring Boot application.

@RestController

Used to create RESTful web services. It combines @Controller and @ResponseBody.

@Controller

Marks a class as a web controller, typically returning views.

@RequestMapping

Maps HTTP requests to handler methods of MVC and REST controllers.

@GetMapping / @PostMapping / @PutMapping / @DeleteMapping

Specialized versions of @RequestMapping for HTTP methods.

@PathVariable

Binds a method parameter to a URI template variable.

@RequestBody

Binds the body of a request to a method parameter.

@ResponseBody

Indicates that the return value of a method should be used as the response body.
Spring Boot Annotations - Explained

@Autowired

Marks a dependency to be injected by Spring's dependency injection facilities.

@Service

Marks a class as a service provider.

@Repository

Indicates that a class is a repository and may throw database-related exceptions.

@Entity

Marks a class as a JPA entity to be mapped to a database table.

@Id

Specifies the primary key of an entity.

@GeneratedValue

Provides the specification of generation strategies for primary keys.

@Configuration

Indicates that the class can be used by the Spring IoC container as a source of bean definitions.

@Bean

Indicates that a method produces a bean to be managed by the Spring container.

@Component
Spring Boot Annotations - Explained

Indicates that an annotated class is a component. Such classes are considered as candidates for

auto-detection.

@ComponentScan

Configures component scanning directives for use with @Configuration classes.

@EnableAutoConfiguration

Tells Spring Boot to start adding beans based on classpath settings, other beans, and property settings.

@CrossOrigin

Enables cross-origin resource sharing only for specific methods.

@Optional (Java Optional)

A container object which may or may not contain a non-null value. Helps avoid null pointer exceptions.

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