Enable HAL serialization in Spring Boot for custom controller method

Question

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 usu

Answer 1

You do not need to create your own controller to limit query results or sort the results. Just create a query method in your repository:

public interface TransactionRepository extends MongoRepository {

    List findFirst10ByOrderByDateDesc();

}

Spring Data REST will automatically export it as a method resource at /transactions/search/findFirst10ByOrderByDateDesc.