Adding more information to the HATEOAS response in Spring Boot Data Rest

Question

I have the following REST controller.

@RepositoryRestController
@RequestMapping(value = \"/booksCustom\")
public class BooksController extends ResourceSupport {
         


        

Answer 1

I was using Page instead of HighlightPage to create the response page. Page obviously doesn't contain content which was causing the highlighted portion to be truncated. I ended up creating a new page based off of HighlightPage and returning that as my result instead of Page.

@RepositoryRestController
@RequestMapping(value = "/booksCustom")
public class BooksController extends ResourceSupport {

    @Autowired
    public BooksService booksService;

    @Autowired
    private PagedResourcesAssembler booksAssembler;

    @RequestMapping("/search")
    public HttpEntity>> search(@RequestParam(value = "q", required = false) String query, @PageableDefault(page = 0, size = 20) Pageable pageable) {

        HighlightPage solrBookResult = booksService.findBookText(query, pageable);
        Page highlightedPages = new PageImpl(solrBookResult.getHighlighted(), pageable, solrBookResult.getTotalElements());
        return new ResponseEntity>>(booksAssembler.toResource(highlightedPages), HttpStatus.OK); 
    }

Probably a better way of doing this, but I couldn't find anything that would do what I wanted it to do without having a change a ton of code. Hope this helps!