Optional but Recommended Features

These are things that you may or may not find in projects you are going to come across, but are nice to have.

📄️ MapStruct

Imagine a big project with a few dozen APIs, and hundreds of Model → DTO conversions... Doing this manually can quickly create much boilerplate code, be prone to error, and consume a lot of time. Luckily for us, there are multiple object mapping frameworks for Java.

📄️ Logs

Considering we don’t mind printing sensitive information (keys, passwords, etc.), I’ve found it useful to log:

📄️ Normalize Errors Returned

At work, I have plenty of scenarios like: