Stream JSON output in Spring MVC

Question

My application is built using Spring Boot(1.3.3.RELEASE) with Spring MVC, Spring data JPA Hibernate. MySql is the database and Jackson is the JSON serializer. On java 8.

Answer 1

Return Iterable from your controller

Stream converts to an iterator by Iterable iterable = stream::iterator;

@RequestMapping(value = "/candidates/all", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public Iterable getAllCandidates(){
    ...

        return candidateDao.findAllByCustomQueryAndStream()::iterator;