How can I map a Spring Boot @RepositoryRestResource to a specific url?

Question

I cannot seem to be able to map my Repository in any location other than the following:

@RepositoryRestResource(collectionResourceRel = "item", path = "item")
public interface ItemRepository extends PagingAndSortingRepository<Item, Long> {

I thought I can use:

 path = "/some/other/path/item"

but the mapping does not resolve. I get:

HTTP ERROR 404

Problem accessing /some/other/path/item. Reason:

Not Found

In spring-data javadoc path is defined as: "The path segment under which this resource is to be exported."

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

To change the base URI, you can also just add this to application.properties:

spring.data.rest.base-path=/my/base/uri

Answer 2

You need to extend the RepositoryRestMvcConfiguration and override the configureRepositoryRestConfiguration(RepositoryRestConfiguration config) to set yours baseUri. e.g.

@Configuration
public class MyRepositoryRestMvcConfiguration extends RepositoryRestMvcConfiguration {

    private static final String MY_BASE_URI_URI = "/my/base/uri";

    @Override
    protected void configureRepositoryRestConfiguration(RepositoryRestConfiguration config) {
        super.configureRepositoryRestConfiguration(config);
        config.setBaseUri(URI.create(MY_BASE_URI_URI));
    }
}