How to configure Spring Data REST to return the representation of the resource created for a POST request?

Question

I am following the spring-data-rest guide Accessing JPA Data with REST. When I http post a new record it is inserted (and the response is a 201). That is great, but is there a w

Answer 1

If you are using Spring Boot, you can add the following lines to your application.properties file for POST (create) and PUT (update) respectively

spring.data.rest.return-body-on-create=true
spring.data.rest.return-body-on-update=true