Spring HATEOAS embedded resource support

Question

I want to use the HAL format for my REST API to include embedded resources. I\'m using Spring HATEOAS for my APIs and Spring HATEOAS seems to support embedded resources; how

Answer 1

Pre HATEOAS 1.0.0M1: I couldn't find an official way to do this...here's what we did

public abstract class HALResource extends ResourceSupport {

    private final Map embedded = new HashMap();

    @JsonInclude(Include.NON_EMPTY)
    @JsonProperty("_embedded")
    public Map getEmbeddedResources() {
        return embedded;
    }

    public void embedResource(String relationship, ResourceSupport resource) {

        embedded.put(relationship, resource);
    }  
}

then made our resources extend HALResource

UPDATE: in HATEOAS 1.0.0M1 the EntityModel (and really anything extending RepresentationalModel) this is natively supported now as long as the embedded resource is exposed via a getContent (or however you make jackson serialize a content property). like:

    public class Result extends RepresentationalModel {
        private final List