Difference between @RestController and @RepositoryRestController

spring-mvc spring-data spring-data-rest spring-restcontroller
mCs picture mCs · Dec 29, 2015 · Viewed 13.8k times · Source

What is the typical use case code that shows the difference between those two annotations - meaning the @RestController and the @RepositoryRestController - ?

Answer

Mathias Dpunkt picture Mathias Dpunkt · Dec 29, 2015

According to the annotation the RepositoryRestController is a way to provide custom controllers that still take advantage of spring data rest functionality

http://docs.spring.io/spring-data/rest/docs/current/reference/html/#customizing-sdr.overriding-sdr-response-handlers

Sometimes you may want to write a custom handler for a specific resource. To take advantage of Spring Data REST’s settings, message converters, exception handling, and more, use the @RepositoryRestController annotation instead of a standard Spring MVC @Controller or @RestController.

Most importantly the RepositoryRestController is aware of the spring data rest base path and will be served under this base path.

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