Displaying Data with Spring JPA and REST - spring

Question

Following these tutorials 1, 2, I successfully made a RESTful Spring application combined with JPA. Currently, I have 3 drivers in my Driver repository.
My problem is when I go on localhost:8080/driver, it says this:
{
"_embedded" : {
"driver" : [ {
"_links" : {
"self" : {
"href" : "http://localhost:8080/driver/1"
},
"driver" : {
"href" : "http://localhost:8080/driver/1"
}
}
}, {
"_links" : {
"self" : {
"href" : "http://localhost:8080/driver/2"
},
"driver" : {
"href" : "http://localhost:8080/driver/2"
}
}
}, {
"_links" : {
"self" : {
"href" : "http://localhost:8080/driver/3"
},
"driver" : {
"href" : "http://localhost:8080/driver/3"
}
}
} ]
},
"_links" : {
"self" : {
"href" : "http://localhost:8080/driver"
},
"profile" : {
"href" : "http://localhost:8080/profile/driver"
},
"search" : {
"href" : "http://localhost:8080/driver/search"
}
},
"page" : {
"size" : 20,
"totalElements" : 3,
"totalPages" : 1,
"number" : 0
}
}
and when I go onto a particular's drivers page, something like localhost:8080/driver/1, it says this:
{
"_links" : {
"self" : {
"href" : "http://localhost:8080/driver/1"
},
"driver" : {
"href" : "http://localhost:8080/driver/1"
}
}
}
In my Driver Entity Class, I have fields like firstName, lastName, telephone and stuff like that. My question is: is there a way I can display on it either localhost:8080/driver or localhost:8080/driver/1? So that it looks similar to this:
{
"firstName" : "Frodo",
"lastName" : "Baggins",
"_links" : {
"self" : {
"href" : "http://localhost:8080/people/1"
}
}
}
I know the fields are properly saved in the database, because I can successfully search for them, but I haven't yet found an example of how to display them, except POSTing with curl.
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help!
Edit: This is my Starter class:
#SpringBootApplication
public class StartServer implements ApplicationListener<ContextRefreshedEvent> {
private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(StartServer.class);
public static void main(String[] args) {
SpringApplication.run(StartServer.class, args);
}
#Override
public void onApplicationEvent(final ContextRefreshedEvent event) {
}
#Bean
public CommandLineRunner demo(DriverRepository repository) {
return (args) -> {
repository.save(new Driver("Jack", "Bauer"));
repository.save(new Driver("JackY", "Aasd"));
repository.save(new Driver("JackMe", "Commou"));
// fetch all customers
log.info("Drivers found with findAll():");
log.info("-------------------------------");
for (Driver driver : repository.findAll()) {
log.info(driver.toString());
}
log.info("");
Driver driver = repository.findOne(1L);
log.info("Customer found with findOne(1L):");
log.info("--------------------------------");
log.info(driver.toString());
log.info("");
// fetch customers by last name
log.info("Driver found with findByLastName('Bauer'):");
log.info("--------------------------------------------");
for (Driver bauer : repository.findByLastName("Bauer")) {
log.info(bauer.toString());
}
log.info("");
};
}
}
And my DriverRepository class:
#RepositoryRestResource(collectionResourceRel = "driver", path = "driver")
public interface DriverRepository extends PagingAndSortingRepository<Driver, Long> {
List<Driver> findByLastName(#Param("name") String name);
}
I do not have a Controller Class for /driver, because the #RepositoryRestResource(collectionResourceRel = "driver", path = "driver") took care of it for me.
My Driver Entity class:
#Entity
public class Driver {
#Id
#GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.AUTO)
private long id;
String firstName;
String lastName;
protected Driver() {
}
public Driver(String firstName, String lastName) {
this.firstName = firstName;
this.lastName = lastName;
}
#Override
public String toString() {
return String.format( "Customer[id=%d, firstName='%s', lastName='%s']",
id, firstName, lastName);
}
}