While using Spring Data Rest after migrating an app to Spring Boot, I have observed that entity properties with @Id are no longer marshalled to JSON

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This question is related to this SO question (Spring boot @ResponseBody doesn't serialize entity id). I have observed that after migrating an app to Spring Boot and usi

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Before expose Id please read disussion: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-hateoas/issues/66

In REST the id of a resource is its URI. The client doesn't explicitly use the id to build an url. You could, for example, replace your id for an uuid, for example. Or even change the url scheme.