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This PR is inspired by #86, but had to be written from scratch because it was over 10 months old when this was undertaken. It was unmergeable. Essentially, by casting existing collections and then iterating over them and making adjustments should render more efficient back end database operations. Only for a PUT should a new collection be created. This PR not only updates these operations, but provides test cases to back up these edits, i.e. a test case for POSTing to a collection, PUTing to a collection, and DELETE-ing from a collection. Adds ability to return an empty response with only the Location header populated by looking at the property update's incoming URL. Original pull request: #128, #86.
Spring Data Rest
The goal of the project is to provide a flexible and configurable mechanism for writing simple services that can be exposed over HTTP.
The first exporter implemented is a JPA Repository exporter. This takes your JPA repositories and front-ends them with HTTP, allowing you full CRUD capability over your entities, to include managing associations.
Installation
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License
The Spring Data REST is Apache 2.0 licensed.
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We disabled the github issues since we want to use JIRA as the only only issue tracker. All open existing issues have been automatically imported into JIRA, so nothing was lost :)