Spring Data REST: projection representation of single resource

Question

I have a simple UserRepository which exposed using Spring Data REST. Here is the User entity class:

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Answer 1

I was able to create a ResourceProcessor class which applies projections on any resource as suggested in DATAREST-428. It works the following way: if projection parameter is specified in URL - the specified projection will be applied, if not - projection with name default will be returned, applied first found projection will be applied. Also, I had to add custom ProjectingResource which ignores the links, otherwise there are two _links keys in the returning JSON.

/**
 * Projecting resource used for {@link ProjectingProcessor}. Does not include empty links in JSON, otherwise two 
 * _links keys are present in returning JSON.
 *
 * @param 
 */
@JsonInclude(JsonInclude.Include.NON_EMPTY)
class ProjectingResource extends Resource {

    ProjectingResource(final T content) {
        super(content);
    }
}

/**
 * Resource processor for all resources which applies projection for single resource. By default, projections
 * are not
 * applied when working with single resource, e.g. http://127.0.0.1:8080/users/580793f642d54436e921f6ca. See
 * related issue DATAREST-428
 */
@Component
public class ProjectingProcessor implements ResourceProcessor> {

    private static final String PROJECTION_PARAMETER = "projection";

    private final ProjectionFactory projectionFactory;

    private final RepositoryRestConfiguration repositoryRestConfiguration;

    private final HttpServletRequest request;

    public ProjectingProcessor(@Autowired final RepositoryRestConfiguration repositoryRestConfiguration,
                               @Autowired final ProjectionFactory projectionFactory,
                               @Autowired final HttpServletRequest request) {
        this.repositoryRestConfiguration = repositoryRestConfiguration;
        this.projectionFactory = projectionFactory;
        this.request = request;
    }

    @Override
    public Resource