Master Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud - Step 26 – Versioning RESTful Services – Basic Approach with URI

The video tutorial discusses the challenges of versioning in APIs, highlighting the lack of a single best approach due to various tradeoffs. It demonstrates creating a simple class to handle versioning, focusing on managing name changes between API versions. The tutorial covers generating necessary code like constructors and methods, and creating services for different API versions using REST controllers and URI mapping. It concludes by mentioning future discussions on other versioning methods and their pros and cons.

Describe the approach taken to handle requests for both versions of the API.

In what ways can different URIs be mapped to handle multiple versions of an API?

What are the challenges faced when implementing versioning in APIs?