Spring HATEOAS

Dependency

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-hateoas</artifactId>
</dependency>

When to Add Links

• self — always, on every resource response
• collection — link back to the list endpoint
• related resources — when a client commonly needs to navigate to them
• actions — links to state transitions (e.g., cancel, ship) when valid for current state

Resource Model