How to disable the default exposure of Spring Data REST repositories?

Question

I have a project that uses spring-data-rest, and has a dependency project that only uses Spring Data. Both projects have spring data repositories and use @EnableJpaRepositories to implement their repository interfaces, but I only want to export the repositories in the parent project.

Here's my question: is there some way to configure Spring Data REST to only expose rest endpoints for resources in the parent project, without having to explicitly annotate every repository in the dependency project with @RepositoryRestResource(exported = false)?

If I can only do this with @RepositoryRestResource of disabling it, and worse yet, no other project with a different use case will be able to enable REST endpoints for those repositories, my dependency project will have to include Spring Data REST solely for the…

Answer 1

Looping back here as I was looking for this specific setting. It looks like this is now implemented. In this case, you would want to set spring.data.rest.detection-strategy=annotated to avoid default exposure.

All application.properties options:

# Exposes all public repository interfaces but considers @(Repository)RestResource\u2019s `exported flag.
spring.data.rest.detection-strategy=default

# Exposes all repositories independently of type visibility and annotations.
spring.data.rest.detection-strategy=all

# Only repositories annotated with @(Repository)RestResource are exposed, unless their exported flag is set to false.
spring.data.rest.detection-strategy=annotated

# Only public repositories annotated are exposed.
spring.data.rest.detection-strategy=visibility

References

• 3.5.1. Setting the Repository Detection Strategy
• Common Application Properties