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Support for read-only properties in Spring Data REST

Our repository entities have audit/log properties like (createdDate, updatedDate...) that are assigned by the application and should be read-only properties to the user. A little bit of research on Jackson showed this feature is not supported (or is it?). Wondering if SDR could be of any help here?

@Document(collection="employees")
public class Employee {

    @Id
    private String id;
    private firstName;
    private lastName;
    
    //read-only attribute. initially assigned by application and should not be changed
    private Date createdDate;
    
    //read-only attribute. initially assigned by application and should not be changed
    private Employee createdBy;
    
    //getters setters truncated....
}
Solution

  • org.springframework.data.annotation.ReadOnlyProperty is added in spring-data-commons 1.9.0.

    This serves the purpose. Please refer: