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Spring HATEOAS: "links" vs "_links" and JSON formats

04 May 2020
Posted by Steven

Recently, I added Spring HATEOAS to the IT Hub. Refactoring the controller to return RepresentationModel and CollectionModel, I noticed something odd. When returning a collection of items, in the returned JSON, the links for each item were represented under "links". When returning a single item, the links for this item were represented under "_links". This article briefly explains the reasons for this and how to fix it.

lessons learned + news in April 2020

03 May 2020
Posted by Steven

This is what I learned in April 2020:

Counter Corona: Pair-Program everything!

01 May 2020
Posted by Steven

As most of us, my developer team and I are doing things quite different these days. For future readers: The Corona virus holds the whole world hostage. To stop the spread, humans in all countries try to avoid physical contact. Many developers already are experienced with working from home. My team and I did not have to change much in the last weeks because we have been working remotely from the beginning. Half of the team is working in Romania, the other half in Germany. To optimize the slightly new setting and to counter emotional isolation, we implemented some rules.

Exposing additional headers in requests to Spring MVC so that they can be used in Angular

29 Apr 2020
Posted by Steven

Working on new features for IT Hub Brunswick, I encountered a curious problem. Sending a POST request from the Angular 8 frontend to the Spring MVC backend returned incomplete header information. This article is about how to expose additional headers to the client.

lessons learned + news in March 2020

06 Apr 2020
Posted by Steven

This is what I learned in March 2020:

Book Review: "Principles" by Ray Dalio

04 Apr 2020
Posted by Steven

Recently, I finished reading the book "Principles" by Ray Dalio. This is a short review of my most important take-aways from the book.

First of all, the design and font of the book really resonates with me. That's the kind of design I choose for my own book ...

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