Provide HATEOAS support for history.Revisions [DATAREST-1158]

Daniele Renda opened DATAREST-1158 and commented

I'm using Envers, Spring Data REST, HATEOAS in my application.

I'm using Spring facilities to access to envers revisions via RevisionRepository.

I created my own REST controller like this:

@PreAuthorize("isAuthenticated()")
	@RequestMapping(value = "/licensePlates/{id}/change/{changeid}", method = RequestMethod.GET)
	public ResponseEntity<Resource<?>> findRevision(@PathVariable(value = "id") Long id,@PathVariable(value = "changeid") Integer changeId,
			Pageable pageable) {
		if (id != null) {
			LicensePlate licensePlate = licensePlateRepository.findRevision(id, changeId).getEntity();
			return new ResponseEntity<>(new Resource<>(licensePlate), HttpStatus.OK);
		} else {
			throw new ResourceNotFoundException();
		}
	}

Unfortunately the entity received is not HATEOAS compliant and so I loose all links to external entities.

Would be convenient that the entity was HATEOAS compliant like the one returned from a normal JpaRepository

Affects: 3.0.1 (Kay SR1)