spring-data-rest

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 List of entities, or a Double , how can I expose them as links? Let's say I have a User entity, I want to get the following JSON: { "_embedded" : { "users" : [ ] }, "_links" : { "self" : { "href" : "http://localhost:8080/api/users" }, "stats" : { "href" : "http://localhost:8080/api/users/stats" } "profile" : { "href" : "http://localhost:8080/api/profile/users" } }, "page" : { "size" : 20, "totalElements" : 0, "totalPages" : 0, "number" : 0 } } And in

In an application using Spring Data JPA and Spring Data REST, let's say you have an entity class like this: @Entity public class Person { @Id @GeneratedValue private int id; private String name; @JsonIgnore private String superSecretValue; ... } We want Spring Data REST to expose all of this entity's fields EXCEPT for superSecretValue , and so we've annotated that field with @JsonIgnore . However, in some cases we DO want access to superSecretValue , and so we create a projection that will return all of the fields including that one: @Projection(name = "withSecret", types = {Person.class})

I am new to Spring Data REST project and I am trying to create my first RESTful service. The task is simple, but I am stuck. I want to perform CRUD operations on a user data stored in an embedded database using RESTful API. But I cannot figure out how to make the Spring framework process the birthData as "1999-12-15" and store it as a LocalDate. The @JsonFormat annotation does not help. At present I get the error: HTTP/1.1 400 Content-Type: application/hal+json;charset=UTF-8 Transfer-Encoding: chunked Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 13:36:51 GMT Connection: close {"cause":{"cause":null,"message":"Can

Edit 14/08/14 13:29 My next conclusion is that the hal+json format produced from my @RepositoryRestResource CrudRepository is incorrect. The tutorial ( http://spring.io/guides/gs/accessing-data-rest/ ) shows the output of a hypermedia Rest JPA entity as: (please note there is no "rel" element, and "links" is not an array) { "_links" : { "people" : { "href" : "http://localhost:8080/people{?page,size,sort}" } } } However, the reference docs ( http://docs.spring.io/spring-data/rest/docs/1.1.x/reference/html/intro-chapter.html ) show that the output should be: { "links" : [ { "rel" : "customer",

There is something that is not enough clear in this part of Spring Data Rest documentation: The Spring Data REST exporter executes any discovered ResourceProcessor`s before it creates the output representation. For what I have noticed, it's true: ResourceProcessor are invoked during the handling of the request, after the completion of RepositoryEntityController respective method. It does this by registering a Converter<Entity, Resource> instance with an internal ConversionService. I don't understand when it is used this Converter<Entity,Resource> . This is the component responsible for