Details
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Type:
Improvement
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Status: Resolved
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Priority:
Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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Affects Version/s: 2.2.1 (Evans SR1)
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Fix Version/s: 2.4 M1 (Gosling), 2.3.1 (Fowler SR1), 2.2.3 (Evans SR3)
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Component/s: None
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Labels:None
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Sprint:56 - Fowler RC1, 56 - Fowler GA, 57 - Fowler Aftermath, 58 - Gosling M1, 59 - Evans / Fowler SR, Gosling RC1
Description
Let's consider authors and books relations from spring-data-rest-webmvc module tests.
Here is an example of the authors rel output:
{
"_embedded": {
"authors": [
{
"name": "Ollie",
"_embedded": {
"books": [
{
"title": "Spring Data"
},
{
"title": "Spring Data (Second Edition)"
}
]
},
"_links": {
"self": {
"href": "http://localhost/authors/1"
}
}
}
]
}
}
Since we inlined books into authors resource we do not show the books association link in the links section for a given author. (according to DATAREST-317)
Issue: It brakes further navigation (discoverability). It's not possible to navigate to the associated book resource from the authors collection.
Solution: to show links for inlined resources
Here is an example:
{
"_embedded": {
"authors": [
{
"name": "Ollie",
"_embedded": {
"books": [
{
"title": "Spring Data (Second Edition)",
"_links": {
"self": {
"href": "http://localhost/books/2-2{?projection}",
"templated": true
},
"authors": {
"href": "http://localhost/books/2-2/authors"
}
}
}
]
},
"_links": {
"self": {
"href": "http://localhost/authors/1"
}
}
}
]
}
}
This is actually how HAL suggests it to be http://stateless.co/hal_specification.html
A pull request is underway.
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