Returned json unexpected, has “links” spelled as “_links” and structure different, in Spring hateoas

Question

As the title says, I have a resource object Product extending ResourceSupport. However, the responses I receive have the property \"_links\" instea

Answer 1

Another option would be to disable the whole hypermedia auto-configuration feature (this is how it's done in one of the spring-boot + REST examples here):

@EnableAutoConfiguration(exclude = HypermediaAutoConfiguration.class)

As far as I know, HypermediaAutoConfiguration doesn't really do much except for configuring HAL, so it should be perfectly fine to disable it.