I have been looking at various examples of how to use Spring with REST. Our end target is a Spring HATEOAS/HAL setup I have seen two distinct methods for rendering REST within Spring Via @RestCo...

I have a controller with method, which returns PagedResource, which looks like this: @RequestMapping(value = "search/within", method = RequestMethod.POST) public @ResponseBody PagedResources withi...

I'm trying to build a RESTful API with Spring Boot using spring-boot-starter-data-rest. There are some entities: accounts, transactions, categories and users - just the usual stuff. When I retriev...

I am trying to invoque very simple json webservices that return data of this form: { "_embedded": { "users": [{ "identifier": "1", "firstName": "John", "lastName": "Doe", "_links": { "self"...

Problem I have two entities defined: School and District. A district can have many schools and a school can belong to one district. When executing a GET request against this endpoint http://localh...

I want my response to include this: "keyMaps":{ "href":"http://localhost/api/keyMaps{/keyMapId}", "templated":true } That's easy enough to achieve: add(new Link("http://localhost/api/keyMaps...

After adding a custom Jackson serializer based on the official documenation I've observed a slightly different json output format. This example is based on spring-restbucks. Extend org.springsource...

Currently spring-data-rest is returning JSON in HAL format in a spring-boot project of mine. I am using an ember.js frontend and want to use jsonapi (http://jsonapi.org/) specification. How might...

I am working on spring boot for creating a REST application. And I have a DTO as shown below: public class Subject { private String uid; private String number; private String initials; private Da...

I'm using Spring Data REST to expose my Entity's and their relationships. I have a OneToOne relationship between two Entity's and I'm trying to update/change the relationship with PUT and PATCH. ...

I want to create a Link to a resource within a Spring Data REST Repository. I know that we can use ControllerLinkBuilder.linkTo method to create links to MVC controllers. As far is I understand Spr...

I have a JPA entity that i am building hateoas links for: @Entity public class PolicyEvent extends ResourceSupport` I want the hateoas links generated to be persisted in the PolicyEvent table. ...

I'm trying to call Spring's ControllerLinkBuilder.methodOn() with a non-String type, which always fails. And I don't know which kind of Converter to use and where to register it. Here's my Control...

I had was to expose the primary key which is annotated with @Id in entity.the ID field is only visible on the resource path, but not on the JSON body.

I am trying to use Spring Data REST with a given SQL schema, which uses the JPA @IdClass annotation for associative tables (intersection table, or many-to-many resolution table). These mapping enti...

I'm using spring-mvc to create servlets like: @RestController public class MyServlet { @GetMapping("/test") public MyRsp test(MyReq req) { //... } } Now if the user accesses the root of my a...

By default when we have a repository with save method exposed we can do a PATCH request. Then Spring Data REST retrieves the original object from the database and apply changes to entity and then s...

I am trying the Spring HATEOAS with Spring Boot. And I wrote a unit test with rest assured: given().standaloneSetup(new GreetingApi()) .accept("application/hal+json;charset=UTF-8") .when() .get...

I have recently started using spring-data-rest for my application. I have the following JPA entities: @Entity public class Super { @Id private long id; @JoinTable @OneToMany(cascade = Cascade...

Is there any way to use a @Projection interface as the default representation for a resource in SDR? Either through the SDR repositories or through a custom controller? It used to be possible in ...

I am using Spring hateoas to generate a HAL interface. My code looks like this: @RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET) public Resources<Resource<Type>> all() { List<Resource&l...

My entity : public class User { private Integer id; private String mail; private boolean enabled; // getters and setters } File test.json (response from REST webservice) : { "_embedded" ...

I have a method with a request parameter and I'm trying to link to this method from another resource. I want the link to be something like this: "rel":{ "href":".../resources{?param}", "template...

I have the following REST controller. @RepositoryRestController @RequestMapping(value = "/booksCustom") public class BooksController extends ResourceSupport { @Autowired public BooksService boo...

I'm trying to do something I think should be really simple. I have a Question object, setup with spring-boot, spring-data-rest and spring-hateoas. All the basics work fine. I would like to add a cu...