How to post a list to Spring Data Rest?

Question

I followed this example, which allows to post a unique Person object. I want a REST service where I can post a collection of Person at once, e.g. a

Answer 1

I tried to use @RequestBody List>. When the request body does not contain any links, it works well, but if the element carries a link, the server could not deserialize the request body.

Then I tried to use @RequestBody Resources, but I could not figure out the default name of a list.

Finally, I tried a wrapper which contained List>, and it works.

Here is my solution:

First create a wrapper class for List>:

public class Bulk {
    private List> bulk;
    // getter and setter
}

Then use @RequestBody Resource> for parameters.

Finally, example json with links for create bulk data in one request:

{
    "bulk": [
        {
            "title": "Spring in Action",
            "author": "http://localhost:8080/authors/1"
        },
        {
            "title": "Spring Quick Start",
            "author": "http://localhost:8080/authors/2"
        }
    ]
}