Spring Boot and JPA contain some features that will automatically record audit changes to Entities. I needed to make the following changes to my application to get this to work:

The application needed the @EnableApaAuditing annotation :::java package com.drumcoder.diary;

import org.modelmapper.ModelMapper;
import org.springframework …

This post covers how to define a JPA entity in a Spring Boot application. Getter and setter methods have been excluded from this example.

import java.time.LocalDate;

import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.Index;
import javax.persistence.JoinColumn;
import javax.persistence.ManyToOne;
import javax.persistence.Table;
import javax.validation.constraints.NotNull;

import org.hibernate.envers.AuditOverride …

Spring Boot JPA Repositories allow access to the database at an abstracted level, with queries being written in JPQL.

At their simplest, they look like this:

    /**
     * Find a calendar day given a room and a date.
     *
     * @param calendarDate The date to find the calendar day for …

I wanted to have my users authenticate with Azure, and create a JWT which then gets passed into each subsequent request to identify them.

First up we have a filter which we add to the request chain. This filter: Picks out a correlation id from the x-correlation-id request header and …