Consuming HAL-based REST service with spring-hateoas

Question

I\'m trying to consume a HAL-based REST service with the RestTemplate class. The response body looks like this:

{
  \"_embedded\": {
    \"school:teachers\":         


        

Answer 1

Definitely, you should go with Traverson

Traverson client = new Traverson(new URI("http://localhost:8080/api/"), 
         MediaTypes.HAL_JSON);
    Resources> teachers = client
        .follow("school:teachers")
        .toObject(new ResourcesType>(){});

https://docs.spring.io/spring-hateoas/docs/current/reference/html/#client.traverson