How can I simply add a link to a Spring Data REST Entity

Question

I have my Entities with Spring Data JPA, but to generate stats about them, I use jOOQ in a Spring @Repository.

Since my methods return either a Li

Answer 1

For manually create links see spring-hateoas-examples. Simplest wai is via new Resource if no DTO and extends ResourceSupport for DTO.

Links to spring-data-rest managed entity I've customized similar to links to root resource:

MyController implements ResourceProcessor> {

   @Override
   public Resource process(Resource resource) {
       resource.add(linkTo(methodOn(MyController.class)
           .myMethod(resource.getContent().getId(), ...)).withRel("..."));
       return resource;
}

And for paged resourses

MyController implements ResourceProcessor>>

The problem is when you need both, as yor cannot extends both this interface due to generic type erasure. As a hack I've created dummy ResourceController