How to map Page to Page in spring-data-rest

When I hit the database with PagingAndSortingRepository.findAll(Pageable) I get Page<ObjectEntity>. However, I want to expose DTO's to the client and not entities. I can create DTO just by injecting entity into it's constructor, but how do I map the entities in Page object to DTO's? According to spring documentation, Page provides read-only operations.

Also, Page.map is not possibility, as we don't have support for java 8. How to create the new Page with mapped objects manually?

You can still use the Page.map without lambda expressions:

Page<ObjectEntity> entities = objectEntityRepository.findAll(pageable);
Page<ObjectDto> dtoPage = entities.map(new Converter<ObjectEntity, ObjectDto>() {
    @Override
    public ObjectDto convert(ObjectEntity entity) {
        ObjectDto dto = new ObjectDto();
        // Conversion logic

        return dto;
    }
});

In Spring Data 2, the Page map method takes a Function instead of a Converter, but it still works basically the same as @Ali Dehghani described.

Using Function:

Page<ObjectEntity> entities = objectEntityRepository.findAll(pageable);
Page<ObjectDto> dtoPage = entities.map(new Function<ObjectEntity, ObjectDto>() {
    @Override
    public ObjectDto apply(ObjectEntity entity) {
        ObjectDto dto = new ObjectDto();
        // Conversion logic

        return dto;
    }
});

Here is my solution, thanks to @Ali Dehghani

private Page<ObjectDTO> mapEntityPageIntoDTOPage(Page<ObjectEntity> objectEntityPage) {
        return objectEntityPage.map(new Converter<ObjectEntity, ObjectDTO>() {
            public ObjectDTO convert(ObjectEntity objectEntity) {
                return new ObjectDTO(objectEntity, httpSession);
            }

        });
    }

And in java8:

Page<ObjectEntity> entities = 
 objectEntityRepository.findAll(pageable)
 .map(ObjectDto::fromEntity);

Where fromEntity is a static method on ObjectDto that contains the conversion logic.

You can use Page.map by simply doing this:

public Page<ObjectDto> toPageObjectDto(Page<Object> objects) {
    Page<ObjectDto> dtos  = objects.map(this::convertToObjectDto);
    return dtos;
}

private ObjectDto convertToObjectDto(Object o) {
    ObjectDto dto = new ObjectDto();
    //conversion here
    return dto;
}

At the end, you will not return the Page to the users, but a list of ObjectDTO, with the Page details at the header, so this would be my solution.

ObjectService

public Page<ObjectEntity> findAll (Pageable pageable){
  //logic goes here.
  Page<ObjectEntity> page = objectRepository.findAll(pageable);
  return page;
}

ObjectResource / rest (the exposed endpoint)

@GetMapping
public ResponseEntity<List<ObjectDTO>> findAll (Pageable pageable){
  Page<ObjectEntity> page = objectServiceService.findAll(pageable);

  HttpHeaders headers = PaginationUtil.generatePaginationHttpHeaders(page, "your-endpoint-here");

  return new ResponseEntity<>(objectMapper.toDto(page.getContent()), headers, HttpStatus.OK);
}

The reason for using this is so that you don't need to duplicate the page details for ObjectEntity and DTO. It is key to note that a page contains the following: