Reducing amounts of hits

Hello,

This is more a question than a feature request or a bug but I thought it still can be the place to ask it (sorry if it's not).

I'm here as a standard Web developer making web sites with a Spring JSON API for backend. I discovered the Spring Data Rest project with great expectations because the most parts of all my servers code are always about publishing some CRUD api.

But since I test Spring Data Rest, I'm facing a problem: the number of server hits. I perfectly understand concepts of HATEOAS, urls, links and the concept of navigation in a REST API and I also appreciate it.

The problem I'm facing is that for some pages which present lots of data, I have to follow lots of links to get all I need and it can lead to hundreds of requests and it's just not possible. I searched but didn't find a way to resolve this question by configuration or anything else and it's currently blocking me to use Spring Data Rest in my projects. (perhaps something around cursom serializer, but I can't override everything)

Finally my question(s): am I missing something? is Spring Data Rest not designed for what I want to do with it?
And if I'm not missing something, can't you add some request parameter wich tell exporter to directly resolve some links?

I hope my question has not already be answered but if so, I didn't find it. I also hope my english is good enough to be understandable ;)

Thanks in advance.
Matthieu

Start by reviewing Spring Data REST's current exporter behavior for resolving links and the existing request-parameter and serialization entry points; no specific files or tests are named in the issue. The scope is complete only once the desired link-resolution behavior, configuration or parameter design, and acceptance tests are agreed.