Building links for a hypermedia-driven API

In this recipe, we will focus on how to create links with Spring HATEOAS and how to bind them to resources.

We will detail the resource assemblers, which are reusable transition components used to pass from entities (such as Index) to their resources (IndexResource). These components also provide support for link creation.

How to do it…

  1. The created resources (IndexResource, ChartResource, ExchangeResource, IndustryResource, MarketResource, and so on) are created from their associated Entity (Index, ChartIndex, ChartStock, Exchange, Industry, Market, and so on) using resource assemblers registered as @Component:
    import static org.sfw.hateoas.mvc.ControllerLinkBuilder.linkTo; import static org.sfw.hateoas.mvc.ControllerLinkBuilder.methodOn; ...

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