Linked Resources and "self" link [DATAREST-147]

Thomas Darimont opened DATAREST-147 and commented

Github Author: mangvlad
Github Last-Updated: 2013-02-15T15:45:15Z
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Let's say we have a Resource (A) that includes a reference to another Resource (B)(OneToOne).
The B resource belongs to a collection (C).
The use case is to display Resource A and a drop-down list that will display the name of the Resource B and other C Resources to pick from.

This currently will require 3 separate requests:

1. Get Resource A from URL /A (this will include link to B like this /A/B)
2. Get Resources C from URL /C (this will include B with link to self as /B)
3. Get Resource B from /A/B (this will include link to self as /B) so we can find it in the collection

If this has to be done for many linked resources oh a large collection, it results in significant increase in traffic and degrades the performance.

Is there any way to include the actual link to B when returning A with links?

This:
{
links: {[{"rel":"B", "href":"/B" }]},
content: {...}
}

instead of current:
{
links: {[{"rel":"B", "href":"/A/B" }]},
content: {...}
}

Thanks

Reference URL: https://api.github.com/repos/SpringSource/spring-data-rest/issues/69