cannot reach controller method in SpringBoot

Question

I'm new to Spring Boot and I'm playing around with it trying to get a response from my backend.

The web server and application are running without errors but when I try to get "Hello World" by typing localhost:8080/api/hello I get a 404 not found.

This is the controller method

    @RestController
    @RequestMapping("/api")
    public class EmployeeController {


      @GetMapping("/hello")
      public String greeting() {
        return "Hello, World";
      }

   }

This is the response I get

the response

Answer 1

You've defined your api path as api/hello , but based on the screenshot of your request you are calling /hello .

Answer 2

use localhost:8080/api/hello , it will a solution for your problem