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

Answer 1

@Id annotation in your model class does the magic.

public class Location {

    @Id
    private String woeid;
    private String locationName;

Then your mongo object will look like this:

{
    "_id" : "2487889",
    "_class" : "com.agilisys.weatherdashboard.Location",
    "locationName" : "San Diego, CA"
}