Disabling ALPS does not remove the profile link [DATAREST-1119]

Jeroen Reijn opened DATAREST-1119 and commented

In my project, we tried disabling ALPS, but this seems to be only partly possible.

For disabling ALPS we used a RepositoryRestConfigurerAdapter like:

@Configuration
public class ApiRestConfiguration extends RepositoryRestConfigurerAdapter {

    @Override
    public void configureRepositoryRestConfiguration(RepositoryRestConfiguration config) {
        config.getMetadataConfiguration().setAlpsEnabled(false);
    }
}

After a restart/redeploy we still see the profile link in the api root response:

{
  "_links": {
    "filtertools": {
      "href": "http://localhost:8081/api/v1/filtertools{?page,size,sort}",
      "templated": true
    },
    "profile": {
      "href": "http://localhost:8081/api/v1/profile"
    }
  }
}

If you actually go to the profile URL it also still works and you will see link relations for the exposed repositories, but when you navigate to one of the exposed repository profile relations a 404 response is returned. I'm not sure if this is wanted behavior, but I would have expected the link relation to disappear from the root response as well, unless other profiles can be configured, but I'm not aware of that

Affects: 2.6.6 (Ingalls SR6)

Referenced from: pull request https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-data-rest/pull/280