[FIXED] How to work with country addresses in Spring Boot

Issue

I'm making Spring Boot and Thymeleaf web app and I want to ask you for advice about persisting addresses in the database. My question is how would you store the addresses for these two entities.

I have a real estate and user entity.

Should I put in both entities fields state, city, street, etc, or make a new entity Address where I should store address from real estate and current address from user.

And is it ok to type addresses manually or is there some free API with country and addresses I can use? Do you have some examples?

Solution

This is opinion based. IMHO, you could create an Address entity, and as such your RealEstate and User could have @OneToOne relation to Address.

To retrieve a list of Countries, String[] countryCodes = Locale.getISOCountries();

However in terms of Addresses, this is country/region specific, and it would need to be entered by the User.

Answered By - SMA
Answer Checked By - Willingham (JavaFixing Volunteer)