Tutorial: Spring Boot + Spring Data JPA + Java 16 (Part II)

In part I of this JPA series, I showed how to get started with Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, and create your first Entity and Repository. This part now takes over from where we were left off, and I'll show two + 1 tricks to get things farther: How to initialize the database data in a more clever way, how to bind the database call to our REST API so we can get randomly selected first names from the database - and as a bonus trick, how to modify the default Repository so that we can get a List of items as opposed to Iterable. Should be fun!

Timecodes:
0:00 - Intro
0:50 - Spring tutorial sources
1:40 - Preloading some data when Spring Boot starts
6:00 - Connect the REST API to the new database model
13:08 - Run the API test
13:45 - Conclusion, wrapping things up

Here are the links in the video: