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API Versioning
Spring MVC supports API versioning. This section provides an overview of the support and underlying strategies.
Please, see also related content in:
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Use API Version to map requests to annotated controller methods
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Configure API versioning in MVC Config
API versioning is also supported on the client side in RestClient, WebClient, and
HTTP Service clients, as well as
for testing with WebTestClient.
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ApiVersionStrategy
This strategy holds all application preferences about how to manage versioning.
It delegates to ApiVersionResolver to resolve versions
from requests, and to ApiVersionParser to parse raw version
values into Comparable<?>. It also helps to validate
request versions.
ApiVersionStrategy helps to map requests to @RequestMapping controller methods,
and is initialized by the MVC config. Typically, applications do not interact directly with it.
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ApiVersionResolver
This strategy resolves the API version from a request. The MVC config provides built-in
options to resolve from a header, from a request parameter, or from the URL path.
You can also use a custom ApiVersionResolver.
ApiVersionParser
This strategy helps to parse raw version values into Comparable<?>, which helps to
compare, sort, and select versions. By default, the built-in SemanticApiVersionParser
parses a version into major, minor, and patch integer values. Minor and patch
values are set to 0 if not present.
Validation
If a request version is not supported, InvalidApiVersionException is raised resulting
in a 400 response. By default, the list of supported versions is initialized from declared
versions in annotated controller mappings. You can add to that list, or set it explicitly
to a fixed set of versions (i.e. ignoring declared ones) through the MVC config.
By default, a version is required when API versioning is enabled, but you can turn that
off in which case the highest available version is used. You can also specify a default
version. MissingApiVersionException is raised resulting in a 400 response when a
version is required but not present.
Request Mapping
ApiVersionStrategy supports the mapping of requests to annotated controller methods.
See API Version
for more details.
