That is my first question on SO, so I will try to describe my problem as detailed as possible. I have a REST spring api on backend and angular app at frontend. I tried to implement following functionality:
My question is following: How should it be done? I would not like to save image to a database - I would rather prefer to store just the URL. I have read there is a possibility to share files in Tomcat (embedded for Spring Boot), but I do not actually know how that works (I am a begginer, so please forgive :)). Could someone explain how does it work, and if it is a soultion for my problem? ).
I tried to save image on my local disk, then share the URL to frontend - unfortunately there was an cors-error, when I tried to display the image.
For servlet stack applications, the spring-boot-starter-web (defined in your pom.xml or which dependency mng you use for file) includes Tomcat by including spring-boot-starter-tomcat , but you can use spring-boot-starter-jetty or spring-boot-starter-undertow instead. If you want to change your application server or getting information, here is the official document
For avoiding cors error , please check related solutions . It might be related your API headers or browser.
If you want a store exact picture , you can save as BLOB(binary large object) column type. Here is the example project but you need some spesific practise for your improvement. Example project : upload and download with spring boot
At the beginning section , you should learn application context , bean scope and basically background of spring framework before developing api with spring boot to getting knowledge of fundemantals.
i hope it helps.