Spring Boot CRUD example

A Spring Boot 1.3.2 CRUD example. This example is based on Dan Vega's example (from the course http://www.learnspringboot.com/).

This project includes 7 brances. In each branch configuration or functionality is added:

• properties branch: first branch to show how the properties are configured.
• domain branch: this branch contains the domain.
• controller branch: the controllers are added in this branch.
• service branch: services an repositories are added.
• view branch : views wit Thymeleaf are created in this branch. Also, a DataLoader class is created, to add default data in aplication's startup.
• security branch: security is configured and "thymeleaf-extras-springsecurity4" is added.

So this project contains:

Domains:

• Author. Represents the author of a post. Contains:
  • id. Long.
  • firstName. String.
  • lastName. String.
  • email. String.
• Post. Represents a post. Contains:
  • id. Long.
  • title. String. Not empty.
  • slug. String. Not empty.
  • postedOn. Date with the format "M/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss a". Not null.
  • keywords. List of Strings. Min size 1 and max size 2.
  • active. Boolean.
  • author. Many to One relation with Author.
  • teaser. String.
  • body. String. Not empty.

Controllers:

• HomeController. Manages / requests. Shows the "index" page.
• PostController. Manages /posts requests:
  • /list. Shows post/list view, that contains all posts.
  • /view/{slug}. Shows post/view view. This view shows a post by a given slug.
  • /byAuthor/{id}. Shows post/list view, getting the post by the specified author.
• AuthorController: Manages /authors requests.
  • /list. Shows author/list view, that contains all authors.
  • /view. Shows author/view view.
• AdminPostController: Manages requests for the ROLE_ADMIN.
  • /admin/posts. Shows admin/post/list view, that contains all posts.
  • /admin/post/create. Shows admin/post/postForm view, to create a new post.
  • /admin/post/save. Saves a new post. If is saved correctly redirects to /admin/post/ action, with the ID of the new post created. If there is an error, shows the view admin/post/postForm.
  • /admin/post/edit/{id}. Shows the view admin/post/postForm to edit the post by the giving ID.
  • /admin/post/delete/{id}. Redirects to /admin/posts deleting the post by the giving ID.

Services:

• AuthorService. Contaisn all the business logic about author:
  • list: gets all authors order by last name, ascending, and first name, ascending.
• PostService. Contaisn all the business logic about post:
  • getLatestPost: gets the first post order by "postedOn", descending.
  • list: gets all posts order by "postedOn", descending.
  • getBySlug: gets a post by slug.
  • listByAuthor: gets all posts by author and order by "postedOn", descending.
  • get: gets a post by id.
  • save: saves the post given.
  • delete: deletes a post by id.