Spring Boot ResponseEntity Http status codes vs json response

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[kenocvr]

It's good to use status codes for instances where the user is trying to gain unauthorized access. It's best not to give the attacker any hints. :)

[omariondumetion]

thanks for the video. simple yet concise !

[livb]

Was just looking into this. Most tutorials just straight up return plain objects(like, for example GET would return Fruit rather than ResponseEntity<Fruit>) and I got scolded at work for doing this when building some simple rest api I had to do. Thanks.

Do you have any vid on how to properly use DTOs? I don't quite see their utility

[georgenicolae]

What do you think about HATEOAS? I do not see it being used very often, but i understand that this is the "true" RESTful. Thanks.

[Korekt]

In your opinion, is providing both a specific HTTP status code and returning a response body an "overkill"?

[livb]

Kinda unrelated to the video but when you have to return several entities is it better to return it as a List or an Iterator?