How to set default value of exported as false in rest resource spring data rest

Question

I want to use RestResource annotation of spring data rest. As you know it exposes ALL CRUD methods by default. But I only need findAll method. One way is to set exported val

Answer 1

You should implement a custom controller for GET /questions request that will return only the result of findAll method, for example:

@RequiredArgsConstructor
@BasePathAwareController
@RequestMapping("/questions")
public class QuestionController {

    private final @NonNull QuestionRepository repository;
    private final @NonNull PagedResourcesAssembler assembler;
    private final @NonNull EntityLinks links;

    @GetMapping
    ResponseEntity get(Pageable pageable) {
        return ResponseEntity.ok(assembler.toResource(repository.findAll(pageable),
                (ResourceAssembler) question -> 
                    new Resource<>(question,
                    links.linkToSingleResource(question).withSelfRel())));
    }
}

and disable your QuestionRepository to be exported:

@RepositoryRestResource(exported = false)
public interface QuestionRepository extends JpaRepository {
}

Working example.