spring-data-rest

I'm currently building a REST API in which I want clients to easily filter on most properties of a specific entity. Using QueryDSL in combination with Spring Data REST ( an example by Oliver Gierke ) allows me to easily get to 90% of what I want by allowing clients to filter by combining query parameters which refer to properties (e.g. /users?firstName=Dennis&lastName=Laumen ). I can even customize the mapping between the query parameters and an entity's properties by implementing the QuerydslBinderCustomizer interface (e.g. for case insensitive searches or partial string matches). This is all

I am using spring-data-rest to expose entities as (paged) rest resources. Everything works fine, but when I request data via RestTemplate , I get an useless HATEOAS JSON (which I didn't ask for). The JSON seems to be a PagedResources. I could live with that, but the JSON isn't converted into an object correctly. There is no content inside. Repository: @RepositoryRestResource(collectionResourceRel = "people", path = "people") public interface PersonRepository extends PagingAndSortingRepository<Person, Long> { List<Person> findByLastName(@Param("name") String name); } Client: public List<Person>

Can anyone explain any techniques to log HttpRequest and HttpResponse in a file. We are using Spring MVC/Spring Rest. What we want is to intercept the request before it is processed and log it. Same way intercept the response before it is sent and log it. Thanks a lot in advance. For logging the request Spring has the AbstractRequestLoggingFilter class (well actually one of the subclasses). This can be used to log the incoming request (before and after processing). Depending on the configuration this can include the payload, client information and full URL (including erquest parameters). All

Spring Data REST automates exposing only domain object. But most often we have to deal with Data Transfer Objects. So how to do this in SDR way? An approach of how to work with DTO in Spring Data REST projects The working example is here Entities Entities must implement the Identifiable interface. For example: @Entity public class Category implements Identifiable<Integer> { @Id @GeneratedValue private final Integer id; private final String name; @OneToMany private final Set<Product> products = new HashSet<>(); // skipped } @Entity public class Product implements Identifiable<Integer> { @Id

I'm trying to do something I think should be really simple. I have a Question object, setup with spring-boot, spring-data-rest and spring-hateoas. All the basics work fine. I would like to add a custom controller that returns a List<Question> in exactly the same format that a GET to my Repository 's /questions url does, so that the responses between the two are compatible. Here is my controller: @Controller public class QuestionListController { @Autowired private QuestionRepository questionRepository; @Autowired private PagedResourcesAssembler<Question> pagedResourcesAssembler; @Autowired