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

@RequestMapping(method=RequestMethod.POST, value="/batchInsert", consumes = "application/json", produces = "application/json")
@ResponseBody
public ResponseEntity batchInsert(@RequestBody Resources people, PersistentEntityResourceAssembler assembler) throws Exception {
    Iterable s = repo.save( people.getContent() ); // save entities

    List list = new ArrayList();
    Iterator itr = s.iterator();
    while(itr.hasNext()) {
        list.add( assembler.toFullResource( itr.next() ) );
    }

    return ResponseEntity.ok( new Resources(list) );
}