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sgt-hartman
sgt-hartman

Reputation: 653

Spring Data Rest - Change the entity property used in item resource url

I'm pretty new to Spring Data Rest and Spring in general. I use Spring Data Rest with Spring Data Jpa and a Mysql DataBase.

I can't find how to change the Entity property used as Id in the URL. Here basically what i'm trying to achieve:

I have the following entity: Plant(id,code,name,...)

Actually i obtain a plant item resource using

GET /plants/:id

I would like to access to this resource item using:

GET /plants/:code

Plant.code property is not the official id of the entity but is unique and makes much more sense to the final user of the API.

I have searched through the documentation and Google/SO but have not found any relevant answer.

So excuse me if the anwser is obvious

Upvotes: 3

Views: 628

Answers (1)

gyoder
gyoder

Reputation: 4738

You could add a search endpoint like this, which returns a single matching resource:

GET /plants/search/findByCode?code=:code

You would do this by adding this to your repository interface:

Plant findByCode(@Param("code") String code);

Upvotes: 1

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