hateoas

What problem does it solve?

Enables building REST APIs that are navigable and self-describing by embedding hypermedia links using Spring HATEOAS, reducing client-side guesswork and proliferation of custom endpoints.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Self links: always expose a link to the resource itself.
• Collection links: provide navigation back to resource collections.
• Action links: attach state-transition relations (e.g., cancel, ship) when valid for the current state.
• RepresentationModelAssembler: use type-safe DTO builders to compose models with links.
• PagedModel support: generate pagination links for pageable endpoints.

Quick Start

Implement a RepresentationModel-based DTO, wire a controller to return it with links built via linkTo(methodOn(...)), and then expose a paged collection if needed.