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Craig Drabik
Craig Drabik

Reputation: 41

Spring Boot HATEOAS links wrong when deployed on Tomcat

I've developed a REST API for an AngularJS application using Spring Boot. I'm running Java 8 and deploying to Tomcat 8 on Ubuntu, running Oracle's JDK8. Everything works just fine when I run from within Eclipse, or if I run the application as a JAR. If I hit localhost:9000/api I'll get output such as:

{
    "expenses" : {
        "href" : "http://localhost:9000/api/expenses"
    },
    "expenseTypess" : {
        "href" : "http://localhost:9000/api/expensetypes"
    },
    ....
}

If I package up the application as a WAR and deploy it on Tomcat at /myapplication, I lose the trailing slash after the application root. Calls to 192.168.1.170:8080/myapplication/api returns:

{
    "expenses" : {
        "href" : "http://192.168.1.170:8080/myapplicationapi/expenses"
    },
    "expenseTypess" : {
        "href" : "http://192.168.1.170:8080/myapplicationapi/expensetypes"
    },
    ....
}

...which obviously causes everything to explode since none of the API links are correct. If I manually invoke the correct URI, then the returned resources also have corrupted links.

Has anyone seen this and overcome it?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 446

Answers (1)

Craig Drabik
Craig Drabik

Reputation: 41

Well, the answer was really simple. So simple, I neglected to even think about it. I had defined a base URI for the API in application.properties as:

spring.data.rest.base-uri=api

Changing to:

spring.data.rest.base-uri=/api

fixed the problem :/

Upvotes: 1

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