How to consume empty collection without HAL response structure in spring-data-rest

I am using spring-data-rest in my application. I configured repositoryRest using configureRepositoryRestConfiguration

I added the following two lines in this configuration

config.exposeIdsFor(Person.class);
config.setDefaultMediaType(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_UTF8);
config.useHalAsDefaultJsonMediaType(false);

Before adding this configuration my response looks as follows

{
  "_embedded": {
    "persons": []
  },
  "_links": {
    "self": {
      "href": "http://192.168.2.42:8082/persons/search/findByGroupId?groupId=44"
    }
  }
}

I am able to get the empty person list using RestTemplate as expected. But after adding the above configuration, I am getting the following response structure

{
  "links": [{
    "rel": "self",
    "href": "http://localhost:8082/persons/search/findByGroupId?groupId=44"
  }],
  "content": [{
    "collectionValue": true,
    "relTargetType": "com.myapp.example.domain.Person",
    "value": []
  }]
}

with this response RestTemplate returns a list of size 1 containing null values for all attributes in my domain.

Can anyone help to get empty list with this structure.

I used the following code to get response from API:

restTemplate.exchange(
    url, 
    GET, 
    HttpEntity.EMPTY, 
    parameterizedTypeReference<Resources<Person>>, 
    Collections.emptyMap()
);

UPDATE:

Is this a spring-data-rest bug. Because somewhere in code, instead of Person, EmbeddedWrapper is used as a domain type. After investigating the code, I found the "collectionValue", "relTargetType", and "value" in JSON response are deserialized from EmbeddedWrapper class.

Refer: EmbeddedWrappers.java

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