Rest API Documentation with Swagger

This time I would like to share one amazing tool that I always use when I develop a new RESTFul service. It’s called Swagger.

A POWERFUL INTERFACE TO YOUR API
Swagger is a simple yet powerful representation of your RESTful API. With the largest ecosystem of API tooling on the planet, thousands of developers are supporting Swagger in almost every modern programming language and deployment environment. With a Swagger-enabled API, you get interactive documentation, client SDK generation and discoverability. (Swagger.io)

You can check it at http://swagger.io/

How to Work with Enum in Groovy

Enum in Groovy are pretty much the same as Java, but with some Groovyness 🙂

I’m going to show 3 different ways to create an Enum with Groovy.

1. The traditional one
2. With static Map
3. Without constructor (yes, you can do it!)

The example will be the same in all of them. Suit card game.

As you may know, cards are divided in 4 Suits. Spade, Heart, Club and Diamond.

The idea is to create an Enum that represents the name and the color of each one.

Putting Spring, Groovy and Gradle together

First of all, let’s create our Rest Service with SpringBoot.

You don’t need to right any line, if you want. Just access start.spring.io, and create a web project as bellow:

*Don’t forget to check for Gradle, and to add the Web dependency 😉

First blog post

fun main(args: Array) {
println("Hello, world!")
}