spring-data-rest, can you provide full details of entity instead of (or with) link [duplicate]

Question

Is there a way to return the full details of a joined entity instead of a link? In the example below I want to also return the details of the product, if I have list of 100 purchases, it would avoid having to make 100 calls to get the product details.

The repositories for Product, User and Purchase entities are all created using spring-data-jpa

{
  "_embedded" : {
    "purchase" : [ {
      "_links" : {
        "product" : {
          "href" : "http://localhost:8080/webapp/purchase/1/product"
        },
        "user" : {
          "href" : "http://localhost:8080/webapp/purchase/1/user"
        }
      },
      "purchasedOn" : "2014-02-23",
      "amount" : 1
    } ]
  }
}

Entities and Repositories;

@Entity
public class User {

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
    private Long id;

    @OneToMany(fetch = FetchType.LAZY, cascade = CascadeType.ALL, targetEntity = Purchase.class, orphanRemoval = true)
    @JoinColumn(name = "user_id", updatable = false)
    private List<Purchase> purchases = new ArrayList<>();

}

@Entity
public class Product {

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
    private Long id;

    private String name;

}

@Entity
public class Purchase implements Serializable {

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
    Long id;

    @ManyToOne
    @JoinColumn(name = "user_id", referencedColumnName = "id")
    private User user;

    @ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.EAGER, targetEntity = Product.class)
    @JoinColumn(name = "product_id", referencedColumnName = "id")
    private Product product;

    @Column(name = "purchase_date")
    private Date purchaseDate;

    private Integer amount;

}

@Repository
public interface PurchaseRepository extends JpaRepository<Purchase, Long> {}

Answer 1

It would seems there is already a New Feature request for this functionality;

https://jira.springsource.org/browse/DATAREST-221

https://jira.springsource.org/browse/DATAREST-243

I'll leave the question open until the feature has been implemented.