Generating Jakarta REST resources with Panache

A lot of web applications are monotonous CRUD applications with REST APIs that are tedious to write. To streamline this task, REST Data with Panache extension can generate the basic CRUD endpoints for your entities and repositories.

While this extension is still experimental and provides a limited feature set, we hope to get an early feedback for it. Currently, this extension supports Hibernate ORM and MongoDB with Panache and can generate CRUD resources that work with application/json and application/hal+json content.

Setting up REST Data with Panache

Quarkus provides the following extensions to set up REST Data with Panache. Please, check out the next compatibility table to use the right one according to the technology you are using:

Table 1. Compatibility Table

Extension	Hibernate	RESTEasy
quarkus-hibernate-orm-rest-data-panache	`ORM`	`Classic and Reactive`
quarkus-hibernate-reactive-rest-data-panache	`Reactive`	`Reactive`
quarkus-mongodb-rest-data-panache	`ORM`	`Classic and Reactive`

Hibernate ORM

Add the required dependencies to your build file
- Hibernate ORM REST Data with Panache extension (quarkus-hibernate-orm-rest-data-panache)
- A JDBC driver extension (quarkus-jdbc-postgresql, quarkus-jdbc-h2, quarkus-jdbc-mariadb, …)
- One of the RESTEasy JSON serialization extensions (the extension supports both RESTEasy Classic and RESTEasy Reactive)

pom.xml

<dependency>
    <groupId>io.quarkus</groupId>
    <artifactId>quarkus-hibernate-orm-rest-data-panache</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>io.quarkus</groupId>
    <artifactId>quarkus-jdbc-postgresql</artifactId>
</dependency>

<!-- Use this if you are using RESTEasy Reactive -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>io.quarkus</groupId>
    <artifactId>quarkus-resteasy-reactive-jackson</artifactId>
</dependency>

<!-- Use this if you are going to use RESTEasy Classic -->
<!--
<dependency>
    <groupId>io.quarkus</groupId>
    <artifactId>quarkus-resteasy-jackson</artifactId>
</dependency>
-->

build.gradle

implementation("io.quarkus:quarkus-hibernate-orm-rest-data-panache")
implementation("io.quarkus:quarkus-jdbc-postgresql")

// Use this if you are using RESTEasy Reactive
implementation("io.quarkus:quarkus-resteasy-reactive-jackson")

// Use this if you are going to use RESTEasy Classic
// implementation("io.quarkus:quarkus-resteasy-jackson")

Implement the Panache entities and/or repositories as explained in the Hibernate ORM with Panache guide.
Define the interfaces for generation as explained in the Generating resources section.

To see the Hibernate ORM REST Data with Panache in action, you can check out the {quickstarts-tree-url}/hibernate-orm-rest-data-panache-quickstart[hibernate-orm-rest-data-panache-quickstart] quickstart.

Hibernate Reactive

Add the required dependencies to your pom.xml
- Hibernate Reactive REST Data with Panache extension (quarkus-hibernate-reactive-rest-data-panache)
- A Vert.x reactive database driver extension (quarkus-reactive-pg-client, quarkus-reactive-mysql-client, …)
- One of the RESTEasy Reactive serialization extensions (quarkus-resteasy-reactive-jsonb, quarkus-resteasy-reactive-jackson, …)

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>io.quarkus</groupId>
        <artifactId>quarkus-hibernate-reactive-rest-data-panache</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>io.quarkus</groupId>
        <artifactId>quarkus-reactive-pg-client</artifactId>
    </dependency>
   <!-- Use this if you are using RESTEasy Reactive Jackson for serialization -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>io.quarkus</groupId>
        <artifactId>quarkus-resteasy-reactive-jackson</artifactId>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

Implement the Panache entities and/or repositories as explained in the Hibernate Reactive with Panache guide.
Define the interfaces for generation as explained in the resource generation section.

MongoDB

Add the required dependencies to your build file
- MongoDB REST Data with Panache extension (quarkus-mongodb-rest-data-panache)
- One of the RESTEasy JSON serialization extensions (quarkus-resteasy-reactive-jackson or quarkus-resteasy-reactive-jsonb)

pom.xml

<dependency>
    <groupId>io.quarkus</groupId>
    <artifactId>quarkus-mongodb-rest-data-panache</artifactId>
</dependency>

<!-- Use this if you are using RESTEasy Reactive -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>io.quarkus</groupId>
    <artifactId>quarkus-resteasy-reactive-jackson</artifactId>
</dependency>

<!-- Use this if you are going to use RESTEasy Classic -->
<!--
<dependency>
    <groupId>io.quarkus</groupId>
    <artifactId>quarkus-resteasy-jackson</artifactId>
</dependency>
-->

build.gradle

implementation("io.quarkus:quarkus-mongodb-rest-data-panache")

// Use this if you are using RESTEasy Reactive
implementation("io.quarkus:quarkus-resteasy-reactive-jackson")

// Use this if you are going to use RESTEasy Classic
// implementation("io.quarkus:quarkus-resteasy-jackson")

Implement the Panache entities and/or repositories as explained in the MongoDB with Panache guide.
Define the interfaces for generation as explained in the resource generation section.

Generating resources

REST Data with Panache generates Jakarta REST resources based on the interfaces available in your application. For each entity and repository that you want to generate, provide a resource interface. Do not implement these interfaces and don’t provide custom methods because they will be ignored. You can, however, override the methods from the extended interface in order to customize them (see the section at the end).

PanacheEntityResource

If your application has an entity (e.g. Person) that extends either PanacheEntity or PanacheEntityBase class, you could instruct REST Data with Panache to generate its Jakarta REST resource with the following interface:

public interface PeopleResource extends PanacheEntityResource<Person, Long> {
}

PanacheRepositoryResource

If your application has a simple entity (e.g. Person) and a repository (e.g. PersonRepository) that implements either PanacheRepository or PanacheRepositoryBase interface, you could instruct REST Data with Panache to generate its Jakarta REST resource with the following interface:

public interface PeopleResource extends PanacheRepositoryResource<PersonRepository, Person, Long> {
}

PanacheMongoEntityResource

If your application has an entity (e.g. Person) that extends either PanacheMongoEntity or PanacheMongoEntityBase class, you could instruct REST Data with Panache to generate its Jakarta REST resource with the following interface:

public interface PeopleResource extends PanacheMongoEntityResource<Person, Long> {
}

PanacheMongoRepositoryResource

If your application has a simple entity (e.g. Person) and a repository (e.g. PersonRepository) that implements either PanacheMongoRepository or PanacheMongoRepositoryBase interface, you could instruct REST Data with Panache to generate its Jakarta REST resource with the following interface:

public interface PeopleResource extends PanacheMongoRepositoryResource<PersonRepository, Person, Long> {
}

The generated resource

The generated resources will be functionally equivalent for both entities and repositories. The only difference being the particular data access pattern and data storage in use.

If you have defined one of the PeopleResource interfaces mentioned above, this extension will generate its implementation using a particular data access strategy. The implemented class then will be used by a generated Jakarta REST resource, which will look like this:

public class PeopleResourceJaxRs { // The actual class name is going to be unique
    @Inject
    PeopleResource resource;

    @GET
    @Path("{id}")
    @Produces("application/json")
    public Person get(@PathParam("id") Long id){
        Person person = resource.get(id);
        if (person == null) {
            throw new WebApplicationException(404);
        }
        return person;
    }

    @GET
    @Produces("application/json")
    public Response list(@QueryParam("sort") List<String> sortQuery,
            @QueryParam("page") @DefaultValue("0") int pageIndex,
            @QueryParam("size") @DefaultValue("20") int pageSize) {
        Page page = Page.of(pageIndex, pageSize);
        Sort sort = getSortFromQuery(sortQuery);
        List<Person> people = resource.list(page, sort);
        // ... build a response with page links and return a 200 response with a list
    }

    @GET
    @Path("/count")
    public long count() {
        return resource.count();
    }

    @Transactional
    @POST
    @Consumes("application/json")
    @Produces("application/json")
    public Response add(Person personToSave) {
        Person person = resource.add(person);
        // ... build a new location URL and return 201 response with an entity
    }

    @Transactional
    @PUT
    @Path("{id}")
    @Consumes("application/json")
    @Produces("application/json")
    public Response update(@PathParam("id") Long id, Person personToSave) {
        if (resource.get(id) == null) {
            Person person = resource.update(id, personToSave);
            return Response.status(204).build();
        }
        Person person = resource.update(id, personToSave);
        // ... build a new location URL and return 201 response with an entity
    }

    @Transactional
    @DELETE
    @Path("{id}")
    public void delete(@PathParam("id") Long id) {
        if (!resource.delete(id)) {
            throw new WebApplicationException(404);
        }
    }
}

Resource customisation

REST Data with Panache provides a @ResourceProperties and @MethodProperties annotations that can be used to customize certain features of the resource.

It can be used in your resource interface:

@ResourceProperties(hal = true, path = "my-people")
public interface PeopleResource extends PanacheEntityResource<Person, Long> {
    @MethodProperties(path = "all")
    List<Person> list(Page page, Sort sort);

    @MethodProperties(exposed = false)
    boolean delete(Long id);
}

Available options

@ResourceProperties

exposed - whether resource could be exposed. A global resource property that can be overridden for each method. Default is true.
path - resource base path. Default path is a hyphenated lowercase resource name without a suffix of resource or controller.
rolesAllowed - List of the security roles permitted to access the resources. It needs a Quarkus Security extension to be present, otherwise it will be ignored. Default is empty.
paged - whether collection responses should be paged or not. First, last, previous and next page URIs are included in the response headers if they exist. Request page index and size are taken from the page and size query parameters that default to 0 and 20 respectively. Default is true.
hal - in addition to the standard application/json responses, generates additional methods that can return application/hal+json responses if requested via an Accept header. Default is false.
halCollectionName - name that should be used when generating a hal collection response. Default name is a hyphenated lowercase resource name without a suffix of resource or controller.

@MethodProperties

exposed - does not expose a particular HTTP verb when set to false. Default is true.
path - operation path (this is appended to the resource base path). Default is an empty string.
rolesAllowed - List of the security roles permitted to access this operation. It needs a Quarkus Security extension to be present, otherwise it will be ignored. Default is empty.

Adding additional methods to the generated resource

You can add additional methods to the generated resources by the REST Data with Panache extension by adding these methods to the resource interface, for example:

@ResourceProperties
public interface PeopleResource extends PanacheEntityResource<Person, Long> {
    @GET
    @Path("/name/{name}")
    @Produces("application/json")
    default List<Person> findByName(@PathParam("name") String name) {
        return Person.find("name = :name", Collections.singletonMap("name", name)).list();
    }
}

And this method will be exposed along with the generated methods using http://localhost:8080/people/name/Johan.

Securing endpoints

REST Data with Panache will use the Security annotations within the package jakarta.annotation.security that are defined on your resource interfaces:

import jakarta.annotation.security.DenyAll;
import jakarta.annotation.security.RolesAllowed;

@DenyAll
@ResourceProperties
public interface PeopleResource extends PanacheEntityResource<Person, Long> {
    @RolesAllowed("superuser")
    boolean delete(Long id);
}

Additionally, if you are only interested in specifying the roles that are allowed to use the resources, the @ResourceProperties and @MethodProperties annotations have the field rolesAllowed to list the security roles permitted to access the resource or operation.

Query parameters to list entities

REST Data with Panache supports the following query parameters to get the list of entities:

page - a page number which should be returned by a list operation. It applies to the paged resources only and is a number starting with 0. Default is 0.
size - a page size which should be returned by a list operation. It applies to the paged resources only and is a number starting with 1. Default is 20.
sort - a comma separated list of fields which should be used for sorting a result of a list operation. Fields are sorted in the ascending order unless they’re prefixed with a -. E.g. ?sort=name,-age will sort the result by the name ascending by the age descending.
namedQuery - a named query that should be configured at entity level using the annotation @NamedQuery.

For example, if you want to get two People entities in the first page, you should call http://localhost:8080/people?page=0&size=2, and the response should look like:

[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "name": "John Johnson",
    "birth": "1988-01-10"
  },
  {
    "id": 2,
    "name": "Peter Peterson",
    "birth": "1986-11-20"
  }
]

Additionally, you can also filter by the entity fields by adding a query param with the name of the field and the value, for example, calling http://localhost:8080/people?name=Peter Peterson would return:

[
  {
    "id": 2,
    "name": "Peter Peterson",
    "birth": "1986-11-20"
  }
]

Important

Filtering by fields is only supported for String, Boolean, Character, Double, Float, Integer, Long, Short, Byte and the primitive types.

Complex filtering to list entities using @NamedQuery

You can specify a named query to filter when listing the entities. For example, having the following named query in your entity:

@Entity
@NamedQuery(name = "Person.containsInName", query = "from Person where name like CONCAT('%', CONCAT(:name, '%'))")
public class Person extends PanacheEntity {
  String name;
}

In this example, we have added a named query to list all the persons that contains some text in the name field.

Next, we can set a query param namedQuery when listing the entities using the generated resource with the name of the named query that we want to use, for example, calling http://localhost:8080/people?namedQuery=Person.containsInName&name=ter would return all the persons which name contains the text "ter".

For more information about how named queries work, go to the Hibernate ORM guide or to the Hibernate Reactive guide.

Resource Method Before/After Listeners

REST Data with Panache supports the subscription to the following resource method hooks:

Before/After add resource
Before/After update resource
Before/After delete resource

To register your resource method listener, you need to provide a bean that implements the interface RestDataResourceMethodListener, for example:

@ApplicationScoped
public class PeopleRestDataResourceMethodListener implements RestDataResourceMethodListener<Person> {
    @Override
    public void onBeforeAdd(Person person) {
        System.out.println("Before Save Person: " + person.name);
    }
}

Response body examples

As mentioned above REST Data with Panache supports the application/json and application/hal+json response content types. Here are a couple of examples of how a response body would look like for the get and list operations assuming there are five Person records in a database.

GET /people/1

Accept: application/json

{
  "id": 1,
  "name": "John Johnson",
  "birth": "1988-01-10"
}

Accept: application/hal+json

{
  "id": 1,
  "name": "John Johnson",
  "birth": "1988-01-10",
  "_links": {
    "self": {
      "href": "http://example.com/people/1"
    },
    "remove": {
      "href": "http://example.com/people/1"
    },
    "update": {
      "href": "http://example.com/people/1"
    },
    "add": {
      "href": "http://example.com/people"
    },
    "list": {
      "href": "http://example.com/people"
    }
  }
}

GET /people?page=0&size=2

Accept: application/json

[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "name": "John Johnson",
    "birth": "1988-01-10"
  },
  {
    "id": 2,
    "name": "Peter Peterson",
    "birth": "1986-11-20"
  }
]

Accept: application/hal+json

{
  "_embedded": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "name": "John Johnson",
      "birth": "1988-01-10",
      "_links": {
        "self": {
          "href": "http://example.com/people/1"
        },
        "remove": {
          "href": "http://example.com/people/1"
        },
        "update": {
          "href": "http://example.com/people/1"
        },
        "add": {
          "href": "http://example.com/people"
        },
        "list": {
          "href": "http://example.com/people"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "id": 2,
      "name": "Peter Peterson",
      "birth": "1986-11-20",
      "_links": {
        "self": {
          "href": "http://example.com/people/2"
        },
        "remove": {
          "href": "http://example.com/people/2"
        },
        "update": {
          "href": "http://example.com/people/2"
        },
        "add": {
          "href": "http://example.com/people"
        },
        "list": {
          "href": "http://example.com/people"
        }
      }
    }
  ],
  "_links": {
    "add": {
      "href": "http://example.com/people"
    },
    "list": {
      "href": "http://example.com/people"
    },
    "first": {
      "href": "http://example.com/people?page=0&size=2"
    },
    "last": {
      "href": "http://example.com/people?page=2&size=2"
    },
    "next": {
      "href": "http://example.com/people?page=1&size=2"
    }
  }
}

Both responses would also contain these headers:

Link: < http://example.com/people?page=0&size=2 >; rel="first"
Link: < http://example.com/people?page=2&size=2 >; rel="last"
Link: < http://example.com/people?page=1&size=2 >; rel="next"

A previous link header (and hal link) would not be included, because the previous page does not exist.

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Generating Jakarta REST resources with Panache

Setting up REST Data with Panache

Hibernate ORM

Hibernate Reactive

MongoDB

Generating resources

PanacheEntityResource

PanacheRepositoryResource

PanacheMongoEntityResource

PanacheMongoRepositoryResource

The generated resource

Resource customisation

Available options

Adding additional methods to the generated resource

Securing endpoints

Query parameters to list entities

Complex filtering to list entities using @NamedQuery

Resource Method Before/After Listeners

Response body examples

GET /people/1

GET /people?page=0&size=2

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Generating Jakarta REST resources with Panache

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Hibernate ORM

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MongoDB

Generating resources

PanacheEntityResource

PanacheRepositoryResource

PanacheMongoEntityResource

PanacheMongoRepositoryResource

The generated resource

Resource customisation

Available options

Adding additional methods to the generated resource

Securing endpoints

Query parameters to list entities

Complex filtering to list entities using @NamedQuery

Resource Method Before/After Listeners

Response body examples

GET /people/1

GET /people?page=0&size=2