Spring Data REST hides technical entity fields (@Version, @Id) from JSON by default. How to return them as usual properties?

Question

I have a base class

@MappedSuperclass
@Data //lombok annotation for getters/setter
public class BaseEntity implements Identifiable<Long> {
    @Id @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
    private Long id;

    @Version
    private Long version;
}

For any derived class Spring Data REST returns JSON without "id" and "version" attributes.

I found 2 solutions:

1. Projections.

2. Add getters/setters with another names:

   public Long getRevision() {
       return version;
   }
   
   public void setRevision(Long revision) {
       this.version = revision;
   }
   
   public Long getIdentifier() {
       return id;
   }
   
   public void setIdentifier(Long identifier) {
       this.id = identifier;
   }
   

Both solutions look like hacks. Does better approach exist?

Answer 1

Showing the ID of the entity is configuring in the RepositoryRestConfigurerAdapter:

@Bean
public RepositoryRestConfigurerAdapter repositoryRestConfigurerAdapter() {
    return new RepositoryRestConfigurerAdapter() {
        /**
         * Exposing ID for some entities
         */
        @Override
        public void configureRepositoryRestConfiguration(RepositoryRestConfiguration config) {
            config.exposeIdsFor(MyEntity.class);            
            super.configureRepositoryRestConfiguration(config);
        }

    };
}