Using Spring Data REST

Spring Data REST (https://spring.io/projects/spring-data-rest) is part of the Spring Data project. It offers an easy and fast way to implement RESTful web services with Spring. Spring Data REST provides HATEOAS support that is an architectural principle which allows clients to navigate REST API dynamically using hypermedia links. To start using Spring Data REST, you have to add the following dependency to the build.gradle file:

dependencies {
    implementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web'
    implementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-jpa'
    implementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-rest'  
    developmentOnly 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-devtools'
    runtimeOnly 'org.mariadb.jdbc:mariadb-java-client'
    testImplementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test'
}

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