How to make entity class and controller for biography backend using Spring Boot?

Question

How would you make an entity class for the backend portion of a biography page (on a site). I am unsure how to approach something like this since there aren't specific things that need to be sent from the server. I have attached some code that I used for my entity class.

Does my entity class seem like the correct way to approach creating a backend for a biography page on a site using Spring Boot?

Entity Class

    import javax.persistence.Column;
    import javax.persistence.Entity;
    import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue;
    import javax.persistence.Id;
    import javax.persistence.Table;

    @Entity
    @Table(name="BIOGRAPHY")
    public class Biography {

        @Id
        @GeneratedValue
        private Long sectionId;

        @Column(name = "section_title")
        private String titleSection;

        @Column(name = "section_text")
        private String textSection;




        public Long getSectionId() {
            return sectionId;
        }

        public String getTitleSection() {
            return titleSection;
        }

        public String getTextSection() {
            return textSection;
        }

        @Override
        public String toString() {
            return "EmployeeEntity [sectionId=" + sectionId + ", titleSection=" + titleSection +
                    ", textSection=" + textSection + "]";
        }

    }

Answer 1

Here is what you could do to implement a Spring controller that takes care of requests to the Biography entity.

1. Your Biography entity appears to be good
2. To work with it, you could take advantage of org.springframework.data.repository.CrudRepository;
   Namely:

public interface BiographyRepository  extends CrudRepository <Biography, Long> {

}

3. Spring is pretty flexible and you can organize your code the way you like it. Here is just an example of how you could organize controller code:

@RestController
@RequestMapping 
public class BiographyController {

  @Autowired
  private BiographyRepository biographyRepository;

  @RequestMapping(value = "/biography, method = RequestMethod.POST)
  public @ResponseBody
  Response create (HttpServletRequest request) {
    //read biography object from the request
    biographyRepository.save(biography);
  }

  //other methods...
}

Depending on what you need, a better practice could be working with the repository through a @Service in the Controller.

Hope that helps.