Path should properly handle Query Parameters [DATAREST-1013]

Ander Ruiz opened DATAREST-1013 and commented

Spring Data REST creates several links while serializing the Resource. I've been able to track to entities that are creating those links:

org.springframework.data.rest.webmvc.mapping.LinkCollector
org.springframework.data.rest.webmvc.mapping.AssociationLinks.getLinksFor()

The problem I'm facing is that "self" links already have a query parameter, in this case something like this:

http://localhost:9000/employees/5?HDIV_STATE=B3555AA7-23-5-C0F5764F5E0D47D3837238A9686D6B2E

When any of those classes handler that resource they try to include additional Links resulting in links like this:

http://localhost:9000/employees/5?HDIV_STATE=B3555AA7-23-5-C0F5764F5E0D47D3837238A9686D6B2E/billableTimes

I was able to replace the first LinkCollector as it is a bean and I used a post processor to replace it so that it handles properly the query parameter. I don't see a way to do the same for the second case.

Ideally I would like to be able to post process every link that is sent to the client, however at least in my opinion org.springframework.data.rest.core.Path should be able to distinguish between path and query parameters when .slash() method is called to create a proper link:

http://localhost:9000/employees/5/billableTimes?HDIV_STATE=B3555AA7-23-5-C0F5764F5E0D47D3837238A9686D6B2E

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