{"id":4166,"date":"2024-03-13T08:02:31","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T08:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-handle-restful-api-requests-in-springboot\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T04:12:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T04:12:56","slug":"how-to-handle-restful-api-requests-in-springboot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-handle-restful-api-requests-in-springboot\/","title":{"rendered":"SpringBoot REST API Handling Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpringBoot is a rapid development framework that offers many convenient ways to handle RESTful API requests. In SpringBoot, handling RESTful API requests typically involves using the @Controller or @RestController annotation to mark a class or method as a request handler.<\/p>\n<p>The @Controller annotation is typically used to handle page requests, while the @RestController annotation is typically used to handle RESTful API requests. With classes or methods annotated with @RestController, specific HTTP request methods can be marked using @GetMapping, @PostMapping, @PutMapping, @DeleteMapping, etc., to bind them to their corresponding URL paths.<\/p>\n<p>For example, here is an example of handling a GET request:<\/p>\n<p>The class called ApiController is annotated with @RestController.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code>@GetMapping(\"\/api\/endpoint\")\r\npublic ResponseEntity&lt;String&gt; handleGetRequest() {\r\n    return ResponseEntity.ok(\"Hello, World!\");\r\n}\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Can you please put your phone on silent during the meeting?<\/p>\n<p>In the example above, we defined a class named ApiController which is annotated with @RestController. We then marked the handleGetRequest method with @GetMapping(&#8220;\/api\/endpoint&#8221;) to bind it to the path \/api\/endpoint for GET requests. 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