spring-hateoas

Can I make a custom controller mirror the formatting of Spring-Data-Rest / Spring-Hateoas generated classes?

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I’ve found a way to imitate the behavior of Spring Data Rest completely. The trick lies in using a combination of the PagedResourcesAssembler and an argument-injected instance of PersistentEntityResourceAssembler. Simply define your controller as follows… @RepositoryRestController @RequestMapping(“…”) public class ThingController { @Autowired private PagedResourcesAssembler pagedResourcesAssembler; @SuppressWarnings(“unchecked”) // optional – ignores warning on return statement below… … Read more

How to correctly use PagedResourcesAssembler from Spring Data?

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You seem to have already found out about the proper way to use but I’d like to go into some of the details here a bit for others to find as well. I went into similar detail about PagedResourceAssembler in this answer. Representation models Spring HATEOAS ships with a variety of base classes for representation … Read more

Enable HAL serialization in Spring Boot for custom controller method

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There’s a lot of aspects here: I doubt that the collection resource at /transactions really returns an individual transaction as you described. Those representations are returned for item resources. If TransactionRepository already is a PageableAndSortingRepository the collection resource can be tweaked by expanding the URI template exposed in the API root for the link named … Read more

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