https://portfolio.obli.dk/tags/rest/Recent content in Rest on Tobys PortfolioHugoen-usSun, 08 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0100https://portfolio.obli.dk/posts/week6-rest-and-test/Sun, 08 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0100https://portfolio.obli.dk/posts/week6-rest-and-test/<h1 id="rest-and-test---from-endpoints-to-confidence">REST and Test - From Endpoints to Confidence</h1> <p>This week was where things started to get more serious.</p> <p>Up until now, I had built endpoints that <em>worked</em>, but I had no real guarantee that they would continue working as the system evolved.</p> <p>This week introduced:</p> <ul> <li>automated testing</li> <li>authentication</li> <li>and a much deeper understanding of how a backend should behave</li> </ul> <h2 id="from-it-works-to-it-is-reliable">From “it works” to “it is reliable”</h2> <p>Before this week, my workflow was very simple:</p>https://portfolio.obli.dk/posts/week5-rest-api/Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0100https://portfolio.obli.dk/posts/week5-rest-api/<h1 id="rest-api-introduction---from-database-to-endpoints">REST API Introduction - From Database to Endpoints</h1> <p>This week was where the project started to feel like an actual application instead of “just” a backend connected to a database.</p> <p>Up until this point, I had mostly been working with:</p> <ul> <li>entities</li> <li>DAOs</li> <li>JPA</li> <li>database relations</li> </ul> <p>But this week, I had to expose that functionality through a <strong>REST API</strong> using <strong>Javalin</strong>.</p> <p>That meant turning internal Java logic into something that could be accessed through HTTP requests and JSON responses.</p>