RESTful Web Services with Dropwizard -- Table of Contents -- RESTful Web Services with Dropwizard -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Getting Started with Dropwizard -- Web service development with Dropwizard -- Preparing your development environment -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- Downloading and installing Java -- Downloading and installing Maven -- Downloading and installing MySQL -- How it works… -- 2. Creating a Dropwizard Application -- Generating a Maven-based project -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- How it works… -- Configuring Dropwizard dependencies and building the configuration -- How to do it… -- How it works… -- The exclusion of digital signatures -- Hello World using Dropwizard -- How to do it… -- How it works… -- There's more… -- Logging -- Default HTTP Ports -- 3. Configuring the Application -- Externalizing the application's configuration -- How to do it… -- How it works… -- There's more… -- Dropwizard's configuration parameters -- YAML -- Validating configuration settings -- How to do it… -- How it works… -- There's more… -- Specifying default parameters -- 4. Creating and Adding REST Resources -- Creating a resource class -- How to do it... -- How it works… -- There's more… -- HTTP verbs - RESTful convention -- HTTP response codes -- The Response class -- 5. Representations - RESTful Entities -- Creating a representation class -- How to do it… -- How it works… -- There's more… -- The Jackson Java JSON processor -- JSON arrays -- Ignoring properties.

Serving representations through the Resource class -- How to do it… -- How it works… -- There's more... -- Using cURL to perform HTTP requests -- Mapping the request data to representations -- How to do it… -- How it works… -- 6. Using a Database -- Preparing the database -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- How it works… -- Interacting with the database -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- How it works… -- There's more… -- The JDBI fluent style API -- The @MapResultAsBean annotation -- 7. Validating Web Service Requests -- Adding validation constraints -- How to do it… -- How it works… -- There's more… -- List of constraint annotations -- Performing validation -- How to do it… -- How it works… -- There's more… -- The @Valid annotation -- Cross-field validation -- How to do it… -- How it works… -- 8. The Web Service Client -- Building a client for our application -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- How it works… -- There's more… -- Interacting with our services -- How to do it… -- How it works… -- There's more… -- 9. Authentication -- Building a basic HTTP authenticator -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- How it works… -- There's more… -- Setting client's credentials -- Optional authentication -- Authentication schemes -- Authenticating users with credentials stored in a database -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- How it works… -- There's more… -- Caching -- 10. The User Interface - Views -- Building a user interface for the web service client -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- How it works… -- There's more… -- Serving static assets -- A. Testing a Dropwizard Application -- Creating a complete test for the application -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- How it works… -- There's more… -- Adding health checks -- How to do it… -- How it works… -- B. Deploying a Dropwizard Application -- Preparing the application for deployment -- How to do it….

How it works… -- There's more… -- Multiple configuration files -- Index.