How to write appropriate endpoint in Spring Boot for GET request? - spring-boot

Question

I have an assignment to write simple GET request.
The format that is going to be typed in URL is like this:
http://localhost:8080/api/tasks/20-08-2020
Server should return TODOs for that date. I did managed to write a finder method. But not sure how to write an endpoint. This is what I have so far:
#GetMapping(value = "/{date}", consumes="application/json")
public ResponseEntity<List<Task>> getTasksByDateUsingURL(#PathVariable("date") #DateTimeFormat(pattern="dd-MM-yyyy") #Valid LocalDate dueDate){
List<Task> tasks = taskService.getAllTasksByDate(dueDate);
return new ResponseEntity<List<Task>>(tasks,HttpStatus.OK);
}
This is inside RestController class:
#RestController
#RequestMapping(value="/api/tasks")
public class TaskController {...}
I cannot hit this GET endpoint...

Answer 1

Workaround for your problem is to get the string as parameter and parse it manually
#GetMapping(value = "/{date}", consumes="application/json")
public ResponseEntity<List<Task>> getTasksByDateUsingURL(
#PathVariable("date")
String date
){
LocalDate dueDate = parse(date);
List<Task> tasks = taskService.getAllTasksByDate(dueDate);
return new ResponseEntity<List<Task>>(tasks,HttpStatus.OK);
}
private LocalDate parse(String stringDate) {
// TODO
}

Answer 2

As author said in comments:
When try to call the endpoint from browser, the mapping is not executed.
Seems like that the browser is sending request with wrong Content-Type header. Your mapping is explicitly requires only application/json value.
When try to call the endpoint from Postman, the application returns 400 status.
I could not see the body of response, but I guess the problem is #Valid annotation on the parameter. How should Spring validate the LocalDate?
So the solution is to remove consumes="application/json" from mapping or send corresponding Content-Type value
and remove #Valid annotation from parameter.