Why is an excerpt projection not applied automatically for a Spring Data REST item resource?

Question

I made a projection which should expose nested entities:

@Projection(name = \"inlineBusiness\", types = { UserModel.class })
public interface InlineBusinessU         


        

Answer 1

I'm not going to argue with @Oliver Drotbohm, as this is indeed the correct answer, however, if you want a cheeky workaround, just define a getter for the entity field with a slightly different name (using the OP's example):

BusinessModel getBusinessInline() { return this.businessModel; }

Will result in a JSON payload of:

{
    .
    .
    "businessInline": {"name":"stuff etc"}
    .
    .
}

Presuming your consuming service will accept that, then its an option.

Not big or clever, but it works.