Advanced Sort and Filtering REST API Using Spring Data and MongoDB

In this story, we’ll learn how to implement dynamic sort/filter for a Spring Boot REST API using Spring Data and MongoDB.

· Prerequisites
· Overview
· Real-world examples
· Coding
∘ Project Setup
∘ Creating the Document entity class
∘ Using Spring Data MongoDB
∘ Service layer
∘ Controllers
· Testing
· Conclusion
· References

Prerequisites

This is the list of all the prerequisites:

• Maven 3.+
• Spring Boot 3+
• Java 17 or later
• MongoDB instance (v6 or later) installed
• Postman / insomnia or any other API testing tool.

Overview

It is common to perform complex searches in our API in production mode. Too much duplicate code has to be written to perform simple queries on each document.

Spring Data offers the ability to perform simple or complex queries on MongoDB documents.