Spring Data REST: Override repository method on the controller

Question

I have the following REST repository, whose implementation is generated at runtime by Spring.

@RepositoryRestResource
public interface FooRepository extends          


        

Answer 1

Is there a way of overriding REST methods while still keeping the other auto-generated Spring methods?

Look at the example in the documentation carefully: while not explicitly forbidding class-level requestmapping, it uses method-level requestmapping. I'm not sure if this is the wanted behavior or a bug, but as far as I know this is the only way to make it work, as stated here.

Just change your controller to:

@RepositoryRestController
public class FooController {

    @Autowired
    FooService fooService;

    @RequestMapping(value = "/foo/{fooId}", method = RequestMethod.PUT)
    public void updateFoo(@PathVariable Long fooId) {
        fooService.updateProperly(fooId);
    }

    // edited after Sergey's comment
    @RequestMapping(value = "/foo/{fooId}", method = RequestMethod.PUT)
    public RequestEntity updateFoo(@PathVariable Long fooId) {
        fooService.updateProperly(fooId);

        return ResponseEntity.ok().build(); // simplest use of a ResponseEntity
    }
}