Spring Data Rest: RepositoryEventHandler methods not invoked

Question

I am trying to add a RepositoryEventHandler as described on Spring Data REST documentation to the REST repository shown below:

@RepositoryRestResource(collec         


        

Answer 1

Sometimes obvious mistakes go unnoticed.

POST-ing a Spring Data REST resource, emits a BeforeCreateEvent. To catch this event, the method handleBeforeSave must be annotated with @HandleBeforeCreate instead of @HandleBeforeSave (the latter gets invoked on PUT and PATCH HTTP calls).

Tests pass successfully on my (cleaned up) demo app now.