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The association handling in DomainObjectMerger is in place to allow the creation of resources using PUT that have non-optional associations. However, if the domain types that the request payload was unmarshalled into use default values - in particular empty collections to avoid nulls - the merger cannot really distinguish between the default set in the type versus an empty collection being submitted through the request. As the usecase here is creation only we can safely ignore empty collections as submitting those doesn't make a difference anyway (no related items attached). By ignoring those, we fix the issue defaulted empty collections in the type definitions being considered as value to set.
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
Installation instructions are in the docs:
License
The Spring Data REST is Apache 2.0 licensed.
Contributing to Spring Data Rest##
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Note
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 :)