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In REST GET is a method level annotation, this annotation indicates that the following method will respond to the HTTP GET request only. It is used to get a resource identified by requested URI.

Let’s try to understand it with an example.

REST GET method Example 1 :-

In this example, we will hit this URL <base URL>/books with HTTP GET method to get all the books resource.

import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;

@Path("books")
public class GetMethodExample {

    @GET
    @Produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
    public Response getAllBooks(){
	return Response.status(200)
		       .entity("All Books from 1 to 100").build();
    }
	
}

Result :-

Example 2 :-

In this example of REST GET, we will use @PathParam annotation to get the value of the parameter passed in this URL <base URL>/books/{id} with HTTP GET method.

import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.PathParam;
import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;

@Path("books")
public class GetMethodExample {

    @GET
    @Produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
    @Path("/{id}")
    public Response getAllBooks(@PathParam("id") String bookId){
	return Response.status(200)
		       .entity("Book id is : " + bookId).build();
    }
	
}

Result :-

References :-

1. @GET Java Docs

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