How to loop and retrieve value from HATEOAS _link attribute (e.g. retrieve a description)?

Question

tl;dr

My code gets an array of javascript/json objects from a Restful GET. How do I write code to loop and retrieve, for display, a description (or

Answer 1

Spring Projection

@Projection(name = "dummyNameForProjection", types = { Product.class })
public interface VirtualProjection {

// this will get the attribute name from the product entity
String getProductName();

//this will get the name of the category entity related to the product
@Value("#{target.category.name}") 
String getCategoryName();

}

Just include projection name in your request ex: /products?projection=dummyNameForProjection