[REST-compliance] Create a test to be sure APIs are REST compliant

[hdurix]

See if there is a way to create a test to be sure all JHipster Lite's APIs are REST compliant (more details in #1273).

Could be something like a integration tests getting all the exposed APIs (not sure there is easier with Spring, to check), and checking that:

• starts with /api/
• n+1 terms ending with s
• n+2 terms not ending with s

Check if those rules can be applied for every URIs. If yes, keep this test and redirect to a documentation when failing.

[hdurix]

Thinking twice, not sure this is doable and correct because of exceptions like:

• codespaces should not be considered as a collection but as an element even if it's ending by s
• feet is the plural of foot (I can't find a "tech" example) so maybe not all collections should be ending by s

[pascalgrimaud]

@hdurix : it's like "chips" :D

[Bolo89]

Maybe to handle the exceptions, in the test, add 2 hard coded lists :

List<String> singularEndedWithSExceptions = List.of("codespace",..);
List<String> pluralNotEndedWithSExceptions = List.of("feet", ...)

And if a word in the uri does not match the rule, check if it's present in corresponding list of exceptions.
It's not very clean :/ but I've no better idea

[pascalgrimaud]

With the new module system, I think we can close this ticket
Am I correct @hdurix @DamnClin ?

[DamnClin]

Yep