Example

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Building a CRUD API Using Hibernate with Spring Boot

Maven Dependencies

Add these dependencies in our pom.xml:

<dependencies>
    <!-- Spring Boot Starter Web -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
    </dependency>

    <!-- Spring Boot Starter for JPA (includes Hibernate) -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
    </dependency>

    <!-- MySQL Connector (or any DB you use) -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.mysql</groupId>
        <artifactId>mysql-connector-j</artifactId>
        <scope>runtime</scope>
    </dependency>
    
    <!-- Optional: Lombok to reduce boilerplate -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
        <artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
        <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

Application Properties File (Hibernate + DB Settings)

# Datasource properties
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/testdb
spring.datasource.username=root
spring.datasource.password=your_password

# JPA + Hibernate
spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=update
spring.jpa.show-sql=true
spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.format_sql=true
spring.jpa.database-platform=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL8Dialect

# Server port (optional)
server.port=8080

Entity Class

Employee.java

import jakarta.persistence.Entity;
import jakarta.persistence.GeneratedValue;
import jakarta.persistence.GenerationType;
import jakarta.persistence.Id;
import jakarta.persistence.Table;
import lombok.Getter;
import lombok.NoArgsConstructor;
import lombok.Setter;

@Entity
@Table(name = "employees")
@Getter
@Setter
@NoArgsConstructor
public class Employee {

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
    private Long id;

    private String firstName;
    private String lastName;
    private String email;
}

Repository Interface

import org.springframework.data.jpa.repository.JpaRepository;

public interface EmployeeRepository extends JpaRepository<Employee, Long> {
}

Extending JpaRepository provides ready-to-use methods like save(), findById(), findAll(), deleteById(), etc.

Service Layer

Service Interface:

import java.util.List;

public interface EmployeeService {
    Employee createEmployee(Employee employee);
    Employee getEmployeeById(Long id);
    List<Employee> getAllEmployees();
    Employee updateEmployee(Long id, Employee employee);
    void deleteEmployee(Long id);
}

Service Implementation:

import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;
import java.util.List;

@Service
public class EmployeeServiceImpl implements EmployeeService {

    @Autowired
    private EmployeeRepository employeeRepository;

    @Override
    public Employee createEmployee(Employee employee) {
        return employeeRepository.save(employee);
    }

    @Override
    public Employee getEmployeeById(Long id) {
        return employeeRepository.findById(id)
                .orElseThrow(() -> new RuntimeException("Employee not found with id " + id));
    }

    @Override
    public List<Employee> getAllEmployees() {
        return employeeRepository.findAll();
    }

    @Override
    public Employee updateEmployee(Long id, Employee employeeDetails) {
        Employee employee = getEmployeeById(id);
        employee.setFirstName(employeeDetails.getFirstName());
        employee.setLastName(employeeDetails.getLastName());
        employee.setEmail(employeeDetails.getEmail());
        return employeeRepository.save(employee);
    }

    @Override
    public void deleteEmployee(Long id) {
        employeeRepository.deleteById(id);
    }
}

Controller Layer (REST API)

import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.http.ResponseEntity;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.*;

import java.util.List;

@RestController
@RequestMapping("/api/employees")
public class EmployeeController {

    @Autowired
    private EmployeeService employeeService;

    @PostMapping
    public ResponseEntity<Employee> createEmployee(@RequestBody Employee employee) {
        return ResponseEntity.ok(employeeService.createEmployee(employee));
    }

    @GetMapping("/{id}")
    public ResponseEntity<Employee> getEmployeeById(@PathVariable Long id) {
        return ResponseEntity.ok(employeeService.getEmployeeById(id));
    }

    @GetMapping
    public ResponseEntity<List<Employee>> getAllEmployees() {
        return ResponseEntity.ok(employeeService.getAllEmployees());
    }

    @PutMapping("/{id}")
    public ResponseEntity<Employee> updateEmployee(@PathVariable Long id, @RequestBody Employee employee) {
        return ResponseEntity.ok(employeeService.updateEmployee(id, employee));
    }

    @DeleteMapping("/{id}")
    public ResponseEntity<String> deleteEmployee(@PathVariable Long id) {
        employeeService.deleteEmployee(id);
        return ResponseEntity.ok("Employee deleted successfully");
    }
}

Main Application Class

import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;

@SpringBootApplication
public class HibernateSpringBootCrudApplication {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(HibernateSpringBootCrudApplication.class, args);
    }
}

Testing the API

Operation	HTTP Method	URL	Body (JSON)
Create Employee	POST	/api/employees	{ "firstName": "John", "lastName": "Doe", "email": "[e-mail]" }
Get Employee by ID	GET	/api/employees/{id}
Get All Employees	GET	/api/employees
Update Employee	PUT	/api/employees/{id}	{ "firstName": "Jane", "lastName": "Doe", "email": "[e-mail]" }
Delete Employee	DELETE	/api/employees/{id}