springboot

For a course we had to implement a service composition that communicated over REST interfaces using spring boot. Part of this was to allow not only GET-request, to retrieve information from the service, but also to allow POST-request, which would enable the user to add information to the service. We faced a problem when testing our implementation. While testing the GET-request is very easy, POST-request contain information in the body and we didn’t know how to properly simulate this without a lot of effort. The simple solution for this is the Google Chrome plugin “Postman”. While capable of sending normal GET-requests, it allows to easily make POST-request where you add information to the post-body.