The Artist data source

🎯 Your goal for this step:

Add a new method to the data source class to retrieve artist-specific data

Use the following artist ID when completing these tasks.

An artist ID

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Solution: The Artist data source

models/MappedArtist

package com.example.soundtracks.models;
import com.example.soundtracks.generated.types.Artist;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnoreProperties;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonSetter;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;

@JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown = true)
public class MappedArtist extends Artist {

    @JsonSetter("followers")
    public void mapFollowers(JsonNode followersNode) {
        this.setFollowers(followersNode.get("total").asInt());
    }

}

datasources/SpotifyClient

// ... other SpotifyClient methods
public MappedArtist artistRequest(String artistId) {
    System.out.println("I am making a request to the artists endpoint for " + artistId);
    return client
            .get()
            .uri("/artists/{artist_id}", artistId)
            .retrieve()
            .body(MappedArtist.class);
}

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