Menu
I'm building a REST API. I have a domain model composed of beans than can't extend ResourceSupport. Which is the best way to expose them as resources using Spring-HATEOAS?
In case that's not possible, which is the best way to include links on the JSON generated by the beans?
204
To implement HATEOAS, we would need to include related resources in the response. Instead of Student we use a return type of EntityModel<Student> . EntityModel is a simple class wrapping a domain object and allows adding links to it. We create a new resource.
With HATEOAS, a client interacts with a network application whose application servers provide information dynamically through hypermedia. A REST client needs little to no prior knowledge about how to interact with an application or server beyond a generic understanding of hypermedia.
Spring HATEOAS provides common abstractions (representational models, a Link class, API to build links pointing to Spring MVC controllers, etc.) to ease building hypermedia driven REST APIs with Spring MVC in general. Thus, you can use it alongside Spring MVC to manually build those services.
Suppose, we have requested a GET request for localhost:8080/users/1, it returns the details of user id 1. Along with this, it also returns a field called link that contains a link (localhost:8080/users) of all users so that consumers can retrieve all the users. This concept is called HATEOAS.
You can use the Resource wrapper:
MyModel model = ...
Resource<MyModel> resource = new Resource(model);
resource.add(linkTo(...
If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
Donate Us With
