Introducing Spring Framework

Chapter 12 ■ Exposing a REST API
}
"location": "/docs/isfbook/Documents/Books/Spring Recepies.pdf",
"description": "A Spring Recipes from Apress",
"created": "2014-02-24",
"modified": "2014-02-26"
But how can you post this data? Well, there are different ways. One is using the CURL command line, like so:
curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"documentId": "03b94c89-c4e0-4144-90cea64ebaaea8b5","name":e":
{"typeId": "41e2d211-6396-4f23-9690-77bc2820d84b","name": "PDF","desc":
"Portable Document Format","extension": ".pdf"},"location": "/docs/isfbook/Documents/Books/Spring
recipes.pdf","description": "A Spring recipes from Apress","created": "2014-02-24","modified":
"2014-02-26"}' http://localhost:8080/mydocuments/documents
Another way is using an add-on from Firefox or any other browser that can do RESTful calls. Figure 12-3 shows
the RESTClient add-on for Firefox and how to add a new document using the HTTP-POST method.
Figure 12-3. RESTClient
Once you press the Send button, it will POST your JSON document and it will insert it into the database.
Regardless of which method you choose to POST the document, you can test it using the same method as Figure 12-1.
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