Spring data setting up entitites

Question

I'm trying to use Spring data rest to build up my entities. Here's my dependencies,

compile group: 'org.springframework.boot', name: 'spring-boot-starter-data-rest', version: '1.4.1.RELEASE'
    compile group: 'org.springframework.boot', name: 'spring-boot-starter-data-jpa', version: '1.4.1.RELEASE'
    compile group: 'com.h2database', name: 'h2', version: '1.4.193'
    testCompile group: 'junit', name: 'junit', version: '4.11'

Here's my definition of entities,

@Entity
public class User extends BaseEntity{
    private String yguid;
    private String name;
    private String email;
    @OneToMany(mappedBy = "user", cascade = CascadeType.ALL)
    private List<Message> messages;

    protected User(){
        super();
        messages = new ArrayList<>();
    }

    public User(String yguid, String name, String email) {
        this();
        this.yguid = yguid;
        this.name = name;
        this.email = email;
    }
}

The other,

@Entity
public class Message extends BaseEntity{

    private String senderId;
    private String receiverId;
    private String mediaId;
    @ManyToOne
    private User user;

    protected Message(){
        super();
    }

    public Message(String senderId, String receiverId, String mediaId) {
        this();
        this.senderId = senderId;
        this.receiverId = receiverId;
        this.mediaId = mediaId;
    }
}

These are my repositories,

public interface UserRepository extends CrudRepository<User, Long> {
}

public interface MessageRepository extends CrudRepository<Message, Long>{

}

This is my entry point.

@SpringBootApplication
public class App {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(App.class, args);
    }
}

When I spin up the server,and go to localhost:8080/ this is all I get,

{
_links: {
profile: {
href: "http://localhost:8080/profile"
}
}
}

I'm expecting to see the entities too, as per the Spring tutorial. What am I doing wrong here?

Answer 1

Have you tried annotating your repositories with @RepositoryRestResource ? This should definately work.

Answer 2

I think nothing is wrong with your code. Have you tried

http://localhost:8080/users

or

http://localhost:8080/messages

?