Returned json unexpected, has “links” spelled as “_links” and structure different, in Spring hateoas

Question

As the title says, I have a resource object Product extending ResourceSupport. However, the responses I receive have the property \"_links\" instea

Answer 1

Spring Boot now (version=1.3.3.RELEASE) has a property that controls the output JSON format of the PagedResources.

Just add the following config to your application.yml file:

spring.hateoas.use-hal-as-default-json-media-type: false

if you need the output to be like (based on question):

{
  "productId" : 1,
  "name" : "2",
  "links" : [
    {
      "rel" : "self"
      "href" : "http://localhost:8080/products/1"
    }
  ]
}

Edited:

By the way, you only need @EnableSpringDataWebSupport annotation in this way.