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

• Exposes a discoverable REST API for your domain model using HAL as media type.

• Exposes collection, item and association resources representing your model.

• Supports pagination via navigational links.

• Allows to dynamically filter collection resources.

• Exposes dedicated search resources for query methods defined in your repositories.

• Allows to hook into the handling of REST requests by handling Spring ApplicationEvents.

• Exposes metadata about the model discovered as ALPS and JSON Schema.

• Allows to define client specific representations through projections.

• Ships a customized variant of the HAL Explorer to leverage the exposed metadata.

• Currently supports JPA, MongoDB, Neo4j, Solr, Cassandra, Gemfire.

• Allows advanced customizations of the default resources exposed.