Spring Data REST + GemFire + AngularJS Integration

This tutorial explains the integration between Spring Data REST, GemFire and AngularJS frameworks. We are going to develop a REST service which returns the JSON response and that will be accessed by the AngularJS web page.

1. Tools Required

We’ve developed this tutorial by using the following tools:

JDK 1.6.
Tomcat 7.
Maven 3.
GemFire 7.0.1.
AngularJS
2. Project Structure

Here is the project structure used for this tutorial.

Spring REST - GemFire - Eclipse Project Directory
3. Business Domain

Message is the persistence object used for storing the data in GemFire’s in-memory storage. We are using only this entity for this tutorial. If you look at the below code, the entity imports the org.springframework.data.gemfire.mapping.Region which is equivalent to the table in the relational database. This Region class used as the segment in in-memory and allocate the storage for the data.

Message.java

package net.javabeat.springdata.data;

import org.springframework.data.annotation.Id;
import org.springframework.data.annotation.PersistenceConstructor;
import org.springframework.data.gemfire.mapping.Region;

@Region(“messages”)
public class Message {
@Id
private String messageId;
private String message;

public Message() {
}

@PersistenceConstructor
public Message(String id, String message) {
this.messageId = id;
this.message = message;
}

public String getMessageId() {
return messageId;
}

public void setMessageId(String messageId) {
this.messageId = messageId;
}

public String getMessage() {
return message;
}

public void setMessage(String message) {
this.message = message;
}
}
4. Spring Data Repository

It’s the repositories that enable the CRUD operations against the business domain. In our previous tutorial I have explained theSpring Dataand how the repositories used for the CRUD operations.

MessageReposirory.java

package net.javabeat.springdata.repo;

import net.javabeat.springdata.data.Message;

import org.springframework.data.repository.CrudRepository;
import org.springframework.data.rest.core.annotation.RepositoryRestResource;

@RepositoryRestResource(collectionResourceRel=”messages”,path=”messages”)
public interface MessageRepository extends CrudRepository