Change main endpoint in Spring Data Rest (usind Spring Boot) - spring

Question

Im building a small application using Spring (Boot, Data, Data Rest).
I have some JpaRepositories that aumotatically are exported as Rest endpoints.
What i want to do is to change the base path from / to /api.
Now to list all people for example i do a GET to http://localhost:8080/people and i want the url to be http://localhost:8080/api/people.
I tried adding this config class but nothing happened (it seems that Spring Boot overrides this config):
public class SpringWebAppInitializer extends AbstractAnnotationConfigDispatcherServletInitializer{
#Override
protected Class<?>[] getRootConfigClasses()
{
return new Class<?>[] { Application.class};
}
#Override
protected Class<?>[] getServletConfigClasses()
{
return new Class<?>[] { RestExporterRestConfig.class, RepositoryRestMvcConfiguration.class };
}
#Override
protected String[] getServletMappings()
{
return new String[] { "/api/*" };
}
}
My Application.java:
#Configuration
#ComponentScan
#Import(RestExporterRestConfig.class)
#EnableJpaRepositories
#EnableAutoConfiguration
public class Application extends SpringBootServletInitializer {
public static void main(String[] args) {
SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
}
}
and RestExporterRestConfig:
#Configuration
public class RestExporterRestConfig extends RepositoryRestMvcConfiguration {
#Bean
public Validator validator() {
return new LocalValidatorFactoryBean();
}
#Override
protected void configureValidatingRepositoryEventListener(ValidatingRepositoryEventListener v) {
v.addValidator("beforeCreate", validator());
}
#Bean
#Qualifier
public DefaultFormattingConversionService defaultConversionService() {
DefaultFormattingConversionService conversionService = new DefaultFormattingConversionService();
conversionService.addConverter(StringToDate.INSTANCE);
return conversionService;
}
#Bean
public DomainClassConverter<?> domainClassConverter() {
return new DomainClassConverter<DefaultFormattingConversionService>(defaultConversionService());
}
}

Answer 1

Well i figured it out. SpringWebAppInitializer is not necesary in this case. I just added this code to Application.java:
#Bean
public ServletRegistrationBean dispatcherRegistration(DispatcherServlet dispatcherServlet) {
ServletRegistrationBean reg = new ServletRegistrationBean(dispatcherServlet);
reg.addUrlMappings("/api/*");
return reg;
}
I think this is the correct way to modify (add, change mappings, etc) servlets using Spring Boot.