Given a simple model of Event that has a Set of Booking objects:
Event:
@Entity
public class Event {
@Id
@GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.AUTO)
private Long eventId;
private Date start;
private Date end;
private String title;
@OneToMany(mappedBy="event")
private Set<Booking> Bookings;
protected Event() {
// for JPA
}
// Getters and setters omitted for brevity
}
Booking:
@Entity
public class Booking {
@Id
@GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.AUTO)
private Long bookingId;
private String title;
private String contact;
@ManyToOne
@JoinColumn(name="event_id", nullable=false)
private Event event;
public Booking() {
// for JPA
}
// Getters and setters omitted for brevity
}
Each have a JpaRepository interface, and I've created a projection so that I can include the details of the booking when retrieving the event.
@Projection(name="with-booking", types=Event.class)
public interface EventWithBookingProjection {
public Date getStart();
public Date getEnd();
public String getTitle();
public List<Booking> getBookings();
}
This is working in that the bookings are correctly returned, however the booking object doesn't have its _links object as it would do if I'd retrieved them on their own. How can I retrieve the booking objects with their associated links so that I can perform operations on the booking objects that have been retrieved?
i.e. instead of:
{
"id":1,
"title":"Test Title",
"bookings":[
{
"title":"Test 1",
"contact":"Contact 1"
},
{
"title":"Test 2 ",
"contact":"Contact 2"
}
],
"end":"2015-06-06T11:30:00.000+0000",
"start":"2015-06-06T09:00:00.000+0000",
"_links":{
"self":{
"href":"http://localhost:8080/rest/events/1{?projection}",
"templated":true
},
"bookings":{
"href":"http://localhost:8080/rest/events/1/bookings"
}
}
}
I want to get:
{
"id":1,
"title":"Test Title",
"bookings":[
{
"title":"Test 1",
"contact":"Contact 1",
"_links":{
"self":{
"href":"http://localhost:8080/rest/bookings/23{?projection}",
"templated":true
},
"event":{
"href":"http://localhost:8080/rest/bookings/23/event"
}
}
},
{
"title":"Test 2 ",
"contact":"Contact 2",
"_links":{
"self":{
"href":"http://localhost:8080/rest/bookings/24{?projection}",
"templated":true
},
"event":{
"href":"http://localhost:8080/rest/bookings/24/event"
}
}
}
],
"end":"2015-06-06T11:30:00.000+0000",
"start":"2015-06-06T09:00:00.000+0000",
"_links":{
"self":{
"href":"http://localhost:8080/rest/events/1{?projection}",
"templated":true
},
"bookings":{
"href":"http://localhost:8080/rest/events/1/bookings"
}
}
}