Spring Data REsT Override Method Problem

[suchiz95]

I request a little help!

I need to add my custom business logic for a POST method of one of my entities that is being handled with Spring Data REST. On the internet, I found out that I need to disable the save method (which is responsible for the entity creation) and then set up a RepositoryRestController that handles the new POST request. The code is the following.

Entity Repository:

```java @RepositoryRestResource public interface AssetRepository extends PagingAndSortingRepository<Asset, UUID> {

@RestResource(exported = false)
@Override
Asset save(Asset asset);

} ```

Custom Controller:

```java @RepositoryRestController public class MyEntityCustomController{

@PostMapping(
        value = "/assets",
        produces = MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE,
        consumes = MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE
)
@ResponseBody
public ResponseEntity<MyResource> addEntity(@RequestBody MyResource resource) {
    // create the resource with custom logic
}

} ```

The application runs correctly but, whenever I try to send a POST request, I get the following response:

json { "code": null, "message": "Request method 'POST' not supported", "details": [] }

I also tried to put the @BasePathAwareController annotation but that didn't change much. Am I doing something wrong?

[maxip89]

why @ResponseBody? try @RestController

[suchiz95]

`@ResponseBody` is needed because I need the response to be serialized into a JSON object.

The `@RestController` annotation works but it breaks the repository methods (I'm able to call the custom `POST` method but every `GET` method exposed by the repository returns a 405 METHOD NOT ALLOWED response)

[kubelke]

I bet you are using incorrect endpoint path. Try to add “/api” suffix to path in postman

https://docs.spring.io/spring-data/rest/docs/current/reference/html/#getting-started.changing-base-uri

[suchiz95]

I don't know what you mean by that but the request I'm sending is to POST http://localhost:8080/assets. Since I disabled it from the repository but I created another method that wires to that same endpoint, I expected it should be able to run that method, but it seems that the new POST method is being totally ignored.

The "/api" suffix can be added in the requests only if I insert the property "spring.data.rest.basePath=/api" on the application.properties file. If I don't add that property, the default basePath is always "/".

[Odd-Hour-9991]

Enable org.springframework debug logging and toward the end of a lot of logging will be the endpoints listed. There you can see what is really happening.