Spring Data REST custom query integration

Question

I want to create a REST link for an Employee entity that will basically be a findByAllFields query. Of course this should be combined with Pa

Answer 1

Spring HATEOAS has changed the name of Resource, PagedResources and some other classes. See here. Below is a working version in 2020.

@RepositoryRestController
public class EmployeeSearchController {
    @Autowired
    private EmployeeRepository employeRepository;

    @Autowired
    private PagedResourcesAssembler pagedAssembler;

    @RequestMapping(value = "/employees/search/all", method = RequestMethod.GET)
    public ResponseEntity>> getEmployees(PersistentEntityResourceAssembler entityAssembler,,
                                                                          EmployeeCriteria filterCriteria,
                                                                          Pageable pageable) {

        Specification specification = new EmployeeSpecification(filterCriteria);

        Page employees = employeeRepository.findAll(specification, pageable);
        return ResponseEntity.ok(pagedAssembler.toModel(plants, (RepresentationModelAssembler) entityAssembler));
    }
}