Spring Data Rest Add custom endpoint to specific reposiotry

Question

I would like to add a custom search endpoint to my existing user repository.

My user Repository looks like this:

@RepositoryRestResource(collectionResourceRel="users", path="users")
public interface UserRepository extends PagingAndSortingRepository<User, Long>{

    User findByUsername(String username);
}

The custom controller:

@BasePathAwareController 
@RequestMapping("users/search")
public class CustomController implements ResourceProcessor<RepositorySearchesResource>, ResourceAssembler<User, Resource<User>> {
    @Autowired
    UserRepository userReposiotry;
    @Autowired
    private EntityLinks entityLinks;

    @RequestMapping(value = "findFirst", produces = "application/json")
    @ResponseBody
    public ResponseEntity<Resource<User>> findFirstUser() {
          Resource<User> resource = toResource(userReposiotry.findOne(1L));
          return new ResponseEntity<Resource<User>>(resource, HttpStatus.OK);
    }

    @Override
    public RepositorySearchesResource process(RepositorySearchesResource resource) {
        LinkBuilder lb = entityLinks.linkFor(User.class, "username");
        resource.add(new Link(lb.toString() + "/search/findFirst", "findFirst"));
        return resource;
    }

    @Override
    public Resource<User> toResource(User user) {
        Resource<User> resource = new Resource<User>(user);
        return resource;
    }
}

This returns the correct search endpoint for the users:

{
  "_links": {
    "findByUsername": {
      "href": "http://localhost:8080/api/users/search/findByUsername"
    },
    "self": {
      "href": "http://localhost:8080/api/users/search"
    },
    "findFirst": {
      "href": "http://localhost:8080/api/users/search/findFirst",
      "templated": true
    }
  }
}

But also for other endpoints like Invites:

{
  "_links": {
    "findUserByInvite": {
      "href": "http://localhost:8080/api/invites/search/findUserByInvite"
    },
    "self": {
      "href": "http://localhost:8080/api/invites/search"
    },
    "findFirst": {
      "href": "http://localhost:8080/api/invites/search/findFirst",
      "templated": true
    }
  }
}

How can this be restricted to the users only? Thanks

Answer 1

I assume your invites endpoint also returns a RepositorySearchesResource ?! Your ResourceProcessor is invoked whenever spring-data-rest serializes a RepositorySearchesResource. If you want different links for users and invites you have some alternatives:

• use different return types for your search endpoints so you can have different ResourceProcessor implementations
• put more logic inside your ResourceProcessor to differentiate if you are in your invites or users use case