Spring Data REST4.4.0

Spring Data REST is part of the umbrella Spring Data project and makes it easy to build hypermedia-driven REST web services on top of Spring Data repositories.

Spring Data REST builds on top of Spring Data repositories, analyzes your application’s domain model and exposes hypermedia-driven HTTP resources for aggregates contained in the model.

Features

• Spring Data Repository REST Resources: Exposes a discoverable REST API for your domain model using HAL as media type based on Spring Data Repositories.
• Pagination, Sortin, Dynamic Filtering: Supports pagination via navigational links.
• Allows to dynamically filter collection resources.
• Conditional Requests: Supports Conditional Operations using HTTP Headers.
• Query Method Exporter: Exposes dedicated search resources for query methods defined in your repositories.
• Lifecycle Event Hooks: Allows to hook into the handling of REST requests through Spring ApplicationEvents.
• ALPS and JSON Schema Metadata: Provides metadata for discovery about the model.
• Projections: Allows to define client specific representations through projections.
• HAL Explorer: Ships a customized variant of the HAL Explorer to leverage the exposed metadata.
• Advanced customizations: Allows customization of the default resources exposed and customization of Jackson.