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The goal of the project is to provide a flexible and configurable mechanism for writing simple services that can be exposed over HTTP.
This takes your Spring Data repositories and front-ends them with HTTP, allowing you full CRUD capability over your entities, to include managing associations.
== Features
- Exposes a discoverable REST API for your domain model using HAL as media type.
- Exposes https://docs.spring.io/spring-data/rest/docs/current/reference/html/#repository-resources[collection, item and association resources] representing your model.
- Supports pagination via https://docs.spring.io/spring-data/rest/docs/current/reference/html/#paging-and-sorting[navigational links].
- Allows to dynamically filter collection resources.
- Exposes dedicated https://docs.spring.io/spring-data/rest/docs/current/reference/html/#repository-resources.query-method-resource[search resources for query methods] defined in your repositories.
- Allows to https://docs.spring.io/spring-data/rest/docs/current/reference/html/#events[hook into the handling of REST requests] by handling Spring
ApplicationEvents
. - https://docs.spring.io/spring-data/rest/docs/current/reference/html/#metadata[Exposes metadata] about the model discovered as ALPS and JSON Schema.
- Allows to define client specific representations through https://docs.spring.io/spring-data/rest/docs/current/reference/html/#projections-excerpts[projections].
- Ships the latest release of https://docs.spring.io/spring-data/rest/docs/current/reference/html/#tools.hal-explorer[HAL Explorer] to easily explore HAL and HAL-FORMS based HTTP responses.
- Supports JPA, MongoDB, Neo4j, Solr, Cassandra, Gemfire.
- Allows https://docs.spring.io/spring-data/rest/docs/current/reference/html/#customizing-sdr[advanced customizations] of the default resources exposed.
== Code of Conduct
This project is governed by the https://github.com/spring-projects/.github/blob/e3cc2ff230d8f1dca06535aa6b5a4a23815861d4/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md[Spring Code of Conduct]. By participating, you are expected to uphold this code of conduct. Please report unacceptable behavior to spring-code-of-conduct@pivotal.io.
== Getting Started
Here is a quick teaser of an application using Spring Data REST in Java:
[source,java]
@CrossOrigin @RepositoryRestResource(path = "people") public interface PersonRepository extends CrudRepository<Person, Long> {
List
@RestResource(path = "byFirstname")
List
@Configuration @EnableMongoRepositories class ApplicationConfig extends AbstractMongoConfiguration {
@Override public MongoClient mongoClient() { return new MongoClient(); }
@Override protected String getDatabaseName() { return "springdata"; } }
[source,bash]
curl -v "http://localhost:8080/people/search/byFirstname?firstname=Oliver*&sort=name,desc"
=== Maven configuration
Add the Maven dependency:
[source,xml]
If you'd rather like the latest snapshots of the upcoming major version, use our Maven snapshot repository and declare the appropriate dependency version.
[source,xml]
== Getting Help
Having trouble with Spring Data? We’d love to help!
- Check the https://docs.spring.io/spring-data/rest/docs/current/reference/html/[reference documentation], and https://docs.spring.io/spring-data/rest/docs/current/api/[Javadocs].
- Learn the Spring basics – Spring Data builds on Spring Framework, check the https://spring.io[spring.io] web-site for a wealth of reference documentation. If you are just starting out with Spring, try one of the https://spring.io/guides[guides].
- If you are upgrading, check out the https://docs.spring.io/spring-data/rest/docs/current/changelog.txt[changelog] for "
new and noteworthy
" features. - Ask a question - we monitor https://stackoverflow.com[stackoverflow.com] for questions tagged with https://stackoverflow.com/tags/spring-data[`spring-data-rest`]. You can also chat with the community on https://gitter.im/spring-projects/spring-data[Gitter].
- Report bugs with Spring Data REST at https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-data-rest/issues.
== Reporting Issues
Spring Data uses GitHub as issue tracking system to record bugs and feature requests. If you want to raise an issue, please follow the recommendations below:
- Before you log a bug, please search the https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-data-rest/issues[issue tracker] to see if someone has already reported the problem.
- If the issue doesn’t already exist, https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-data-rest/issues[create a new issue].
- Please provide as much information as possible with the issue report, we like to know the version of Spring Data that you are using and JVM version.
- If you need to paste code, or include a stack trace use GitHub's flavor of Markdown and wrap your code with triple-backquotes.
- If possible try to create a test-case or project that replicates the issue. Attach a link to your code or a compressed file containing your code.
== Building from Source
You don’t need to build from source to use Spring Data (binaries in https://repo.spring.io[repo.spring.io]), but if you want to try out the latest and greatest, Spring Data can be easily built with the https://github.com/takari/maven-wrapper[maven wrapper]. You also need JDK 17.
[source,bash]
$ ./mvnw clean install
If you want to build with the regular mvn
command, you will need https://maven.apache.org/run-maven/index.html[Maven v3.5.0 or above].
Also see link:CONTRIBUTING.adoc[CONTRIBUTING.adoc] if you wish to submit pull requests, and in particular please sign the https://cla.pivotal.io/sign/spring[Contributor’s Agreement] before your first non-trivial change.
=== Building reference documentation
Building the documentation builds also the project without running tests.
[source,bash]
$ ./mvnw clean install -Pantora
The generated documentation is available from target/site/reference/html/index.html
.
== Guides
The https://spring.io/[spring.io] site contains several guides that show how to use Spring Data step-by-step:
- https://spring.io/guides/gs/accessing-data-rest/[Accessing JPA Data with REST] is a guide to creating a REST web service exposing data stored with JPA through repositories.
- https://spring.io/guides/gs/accessing-mongodb-data-rest/[Accessing MongoDB Data with REST] is a guide to creating a REST web service exposing data stored in MongoDB through repositories.
- https://spring.io/guides/gs/accessing-neo4j-data-rest/[Accessing Neo4j Data with REST] is a guide to creating a REST web service exposing data stored in Neo4j through repositories.
- https://spring.io/guides/gs/accessing-gemfire-data-rest/[Accessing GemFire Data with REST] is a guide to creating a REST web service exposing data stored in Pivotal GemFire through repositories.
== Examples
- https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-data-examples/[Spring Data Examples] contains example projects that explain specific features in more detail.
== License
Spring Data REST is Open Source software released under the https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html[Apache 2.0 license].