Spring Data Rest base path

Question

I have added Spring Data Rest (2.0) to an existing Spring MVC application by creating a Java config class that extends RepositoryRestMvcConfiguration, and adding @RestResource to the repositories.

Is it possible to change the base URL for the Rest API? E.g:

http://localhost:8080/rest/customers 

instead of

http://localhost:8080/customers 

I tried to override configureRepositoryRestConfiguration using setBaseURI, but it didn't seem to apply to all links in the response.

Answer 1

As of Spring Boot 1.2 you are able to set this property:

spring.data.rest.baseUri=api

Alternatively:

spring.data.rest.base-uri=api

(Spring Boot uses a relaxed binding system)

NOTE: I have found that if you have extended RepositoryRestMvcConfiguration with custom configuration, the property does not take effect. For more information see:

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/issues/2392

Once the next version of Spring Boot is released (after 1.2.1), the solution will be to extend RepositoryRestMvcBootConfiguration instead.