JPA Repository and Spring-data-rest baseURi is /profile - spring-data-jpa

Question

Just learning springboot (and newish to java: from .NET world)
Too PS course on spring-data and spring-data-rest. All went well
Made a test project connection to MS SQlServer. Created a few JPA Repos and unit tests pass for FindAll
I don't have a base-uri set in app properties and when explore the rest interface (with Postman) everything appears under /profile.
{
"_links": {
"self": {
"href": "http://localhost:8080/profile"
},
"users": {
"href": "http://localhost:8080/profile/users"
},
"tasks": {
"href": "http://localhost:8080/profile/tasks"
}
}
}
first question is, where does /profile come from?

Answer 1

It's not a base path (url). It's a normal work of SDR:
A profile link, as defined in RFC 6906, is a place to include application-level details. The ALPS draft spec is meant to define a particular profile format, which we explore later in this section.
If you navigate into the profile link at localhost:8080/profile, you see content resembling the following:
{
"_links" : {
"self" : {
"href" : "http://localhost:8080/profile"
},
"persons" : {
"href" : "http://localhost:8080/profile/persons"
},
"addresses" : {
"href" : "http://localhost:8080/profile/addresses"
}
}
}
To work with your entities you have to use these links:
http://localhost:8080/users
http://localhost:8080/tasks
By the way you can set 'base path' in three ways:
In 'application.properties`
spring.data.rest.basePath=/api
Registering a bean
#Bean
public RepositoryRestConfigurer repositoryRestConfigurer() {
return new RepositoryRestConfigurerAdapter() {
#Override
public void configureRepositoryRestConfiguration(RepositoryRestConfiguration config) {
config.setBasePath("/api");
}
};
}
With a custom implementation of RepositoryRestConfigurer
#Component
public class CustomizedRestMvcConfiguration extends RepositoryRestConfigurerAdapter {
#Override
public void configureRepositoryRestConfiguration(RepositoryRestConfiguration config) {
config.setBasePath("/api");
}
}