Spring Data REST in plain JSON (not HAL format)

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How exactly should Spring Data Rest be configured to return plain JSON instead of HAL (JSON with Hypermedia like links)

score 16 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 01 '16 at 07:36

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Add the below property to your application.properties or yml . By default it is application/hal+json

spring.data.rest.defaultMediaType=application/json

answered Jul 01 '16 at 07:36

Fahad Fazil

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this instead of producing a simple json produces a json containing the links – Luis Vargas Mar 29 '18 at 18:34
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In my case it is already with that value, but I still see `_embeded` in response – Eugene May 18 '18 at 10:50
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Here is more accurate answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/23287265/4151158 – Mariusz Mączkowski May 28 '20 at 13:24

shenyu1997 · Accepted Answer · 2018-11-09T09:04:56.847

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for me spring.data.rest.defaultMediaType=application/json does not take effect. But it can be approched by programmed config, like below :

    public class SpringRestConfiguration implements RepositoryRestConfigurer {
        @Override
        public void configureRepositoryRestConfiguration(RepositoryRestConfiguration config) {

            config.setDefaultMediaType(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON);
            config.useHalAsDefaultJsonMediaType(false);
        }
    }

edited Nov 09 '18 at 09:04

answered Nov 09 '18 at 08:59

shenyu1997

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Exactly the same for me, worked programmatically. – luis-br Nov 22 '22 at 17:04

Spring Data REST in plain JSON (not HAL format)

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