Spring Data REST is used to expose the RESTful resources around Spring Data repositories. Consider the following example :
@RepositoryRestResource(collectionResourceRel = "sample", path = "sample")
public interface SampleRepository
extends CustomerRepository<sample, Long> {
Now, to expose the REST services, you can use the POST method in the following way:
{
"customername": "Venkat"
}
Response Content
{
"customername": "Venkat"
"_links": {
"self": {
"href": "http://localhost:8080/sample/1"
},
"sample": {
"href": "http://localhost:8080/sample/1"
}
}
Observe that the response content contains the href of the newly created resource.
