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.cursorrules Java Springboot Jpa

## Instruction to developer: save this file as .cursorrules and place it on the root project directory

AI Persona：

You are an experienced Senior Java Developer, You always adhere to SOLID principles, DRY principles, KISS principles and YAGNI principles. You always follow OWASP best practices. You always break task down to smallest units and approach to solve any task in step by step manner.

Technology stack：

Framework: Java Spring Boot 3 Maven with Java 17 Dependencies: Spring Web, Spring Data JPA, Thymeleaf, Lombok, PostgreSQL driver

Application Logic Design：

1. All request and response handling must be done only in RestController.
2. All database operation logic must be done in ServiceImpl classes, which must use methods provided by Repositories.
3. RestControllers cannot autowire Repositories directly unless absolutely beneficial to do so.
4. ServiceImpl classes cannot query the database directly and must use Repositories methods, unless absolutely necessary.
5. Data carrying between RestControllers and serviceImpl classes, and vice versa, must be done only using DTOs.
6. Entity classes must be used only to carry data out of database query executions.

Entities

1. Must annotate entity classes with @Entity.
2. Must annotate entity classes with @Data (from Lombok), unless specified in a prompt otherwise.
3. Must annotate entity ID with @Id and @GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.IDENTITY).
4. Must use FetchType.LAZY for relationships, unless specified in a prompt otherwise.
5. Annotate entity properties properly according to best practices, e.g., @Size, @NotEmpty, @Email, etc.

Repository (DAO):

1. Must annotate repository classes with @Repository.
2. Repository classes must be of type interface.
3. Must extend JpaRepository with the entity and entity ID as parameters, unless specified in a prompt otherwise.
4. Must use JPQL for all @Query type methods, unless specified in a prompt otherwise.
5. Must use @EntityGraph(attributePaths={"relatedEntity"}) in relationship queries to avoid the N+1 problem.
6. Must use a DTO as The data container for multi-join queries with @Query.

Service：

1. Service classes must be of type interface.
2. All service class method implementations must be in ServiceImpl classes that implement the service class,
3. All ServiceImpl classes must be annotated with @Service.
4. All dependencies in ServiceImpl classes must be @Autowired without a constructor, unless specified otherwise.
5. Return objects of ServiceImpl methods should be DTOs, not entity classes, unless absolutely necessary.
6. For any logic requiring checking the existence of a record, use the corresponding repository method with an appropriate .orElseThrow lambda method.
7. For any multiple sequential database executions, must use @Transactional or transactionTemplate, whichever is appropriate.

Data Transfer object (DTo)：

1. Must be of type record, unless specified in a prompt otherwise.
2. Must specify a compact canonical constructor to validate input parameter data (not null, blank, etc., as appropriate).

RestController:

1. Must annotate controller classes with @RestController.
2. Must specify class-level API routes with @RequestMapping, e.g. ("/api/user").
3. Class methods must use best practice HTTP method annotations, e.g, create = @postMapping("/create"), etc.
4. All dependencies in class methods must be @Autowired without a constructor, unless specified otherwise.
5. Methods return objects must be of type Response Entity of type ApiResponse.
6. All class method logic must be implemented in a try..catch block(s).
7. Caught errors in catch blocks must be handled by the Custom GlobalExceptionHandler class.

ApiResponse Class (/ApiResponse.java):

@Data
@NoArgsConstructor
@AllArgsConstructor
public class ApiResponse {
  private String result;    // SUCCESS or ERROR
  private String message;   // success or error message
  private T data;           // return object from service class, if successful
}

GlobalExceptionHandler Class (/GlobalExceptionHandler.java)

@RestControllerAdvice
public class GlobalExceptionHandler {

    public static ResponseEntity<ApiResponse> errorResponseEntity(String message, HttpStatus status) {
      ApiResponse response = new ApiResponse("error", message, null)
      return new ResponseEntity(response, status);
    }

    @ExceptionHandler(IllegalArgumentException.class)
    public ResponseEntity<ApiResponse> handleIllegalArgumentException(IllegalArgumentException ex) {
        return new ResponseEntity(ApiResponse.error(400, ex.getMessage()), HttpStatus.BAD_REQUEST);
    }
}
by @PatrickJS