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

If you have HAL available it will be selected for you by spring boot (and "_links" is what you get with HAL). You should be able to @EnableHypermediaSupport manually to override the defaults.