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Upgrade to Spring Boot 1.4 Spring Boot 1.4 is a big jump, and introduced lots of new test facilities and aligned with the new technology stack, such as Spring framework 4.3 and Hibernate 5.2 and Spring Security 4.1, etc. Spring Boot 1.4 New starter:spring-boot-starter-test Spring Boot 1.4 brings a new starter for test scope, named spring-boot-starter-test . Use the following: <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId> <scope>test</scope> </dependency> Instead of: <dependency> <groupId>com.jayway.jsonpath</groupId> <artifactId>json-path</artifactId> <scope>test</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.assertj</groupId> <artifactId>assertj-core</artifactId> <scope>test</scope> </dependency> <dependency> ...

As stated in before posts, we are going to build a Blog system. To demonstrate REST API, we use a simple Post entity to persist blog entries, and expose the CRUD operations via REST APIs to client applications. As a REST API consumer, the client applications could be a website, a desktop application, or a mobile application. Following the REST API convention and HTTP protocol specification, the post APIs can be designed as the following table. Uri Http Method Request Response Description /posts GET 200, [{'id':1, 'title'},{}] Get all posts /posts POST {'title':'test title','content':'test content'} 201 Create a new post /posts/{id} GET 200, {'id':1, 'title'} Get a post by id /posts/{id} PUT {'title':'test title','content':'test content'} 204 Update a post /posts/{id} DELETE 204 Delete a post Next, we begin to create the domain model...