Link discovery by looking at repository finders [DATAREST-600]

Oliver Trosien opened DATAREST-600 and commented

At the moment structural links of a resource get populated by looking at the properties of an entity. This is fine so far, but Spring Data REST could do better. If you have a repository finder that takes an entity as input, it could actually be rendered as structural link from this entity. Example:

entity Product 
entity CustomerRating

repository CustomerRatingRepository {
  Page<CustomerRating> findByProduct(@Param("product") Product p, Pageable pageable);
}

Of course I could add a @OneToMany from Product to CustomerRating, but let's assume this would break modularity of my system. Still it would be nice to have a link on the REST API from a product to its customer ratings. What do you think? Is this a valid use case? Is this possible (e.g. adding annotations to the finder)?

Issue Links:

• DATAREST-725 Support pagination and sorting on association resources

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