auto-mapping CrudRepository with default rest uri endpoints in spring

Question

I'm about to create a stock-standard rest CRUD api and have taken note of the handy CrudRepository class given in the spring-data framework. I'm planning on also using spring to declare @RequestMappings to hook up the default crud operations to their URL counterparts (e.g. /customer/{id} --> CrudRepository.findOne({id}), etc).

Is there a spring utility class to acheive this or will i need to roll my own?

Answer 1

Ah ha! What I'm looking for is a org.springframework.data.rest.core.annotation.RepositoryRestResource located in the spring data rest webmvc project. maven co-ordinates: "org.springframework.data:spring-data-rest-webmvc"

an example extract from the documentation:

@RepositoryRestResource(collectionResourceRel = "people", path = "people")
public interface PersonRepository extends PagingAndSortingRepository<Person, Long> {

    List<Person> findByLastName(@Param("name") String name);

}
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This repository is an interface and will allow you to perform various operations involving Person objects. It gets these operations by > extending the PagingAndSortingRepositry interface defined in Spring Data Commons.

At runtime, Spring Data REST will create an implementation of this interface automatically. Then it will use the @RepositoryRestResource > annotation to direct Spring MVC to create RESTful endpoints at /people.