HAL Browser go to entry point link wrong with a non-default context-path [DATAREST-971]

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Andrea Bollini opened DATAREST-971 and commented

I'm building a Spring Data REST application deployed on an external tomcat with a non-ROOT context-path. All works fine in the initial redirect to the HAL browser and subsequent links exploring the API excerpt for the top navigation link "Go to Entry point" that force the HAL browser to look for the REST API at #/

This should be related to
mikekelly/hal-browser#21

the solution should be to replace the entryPoint configured here
https://github.com/mikekelly/hal-browser/blob/master/browser.html#L252
with the actual application contextPath

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Affects: 2.5.6 (Hopper SR6)

2 votes, 5 watchers

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Oliver Drotbohm commented

Care to provide a sample project that reproduces the issue? Actually, we explicitly populate the entry point using the fragment identifier in the URI

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Andrea Bollini commented

Hi Oliver,
thanks to look to this.
Here a sample project
https://github.com/abollini/hal-spring-data-rest-test

just checkout as test and run from eclipse as a webapplication in tomcat
accessing
http://localhost:8080/test/api
you are redirected to
http://localhost:8080/test/api/browser/index.html#/test/api
and you will see the HAL browser working properly but if you click on the go to Entry point you are redirected to
http://localhost:8080/test/api/browser/index.html#/

if you check the fix-index.html file in the root you see that the link is fixed initializing the HAL browser with the API location
https://github.com/mikekelly/hal-browser/blob/master/browser.html#L252

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Jeroen Reijn commented

I have the same issue, but when using a custom basePath. In my project I use spring.data.rest.basePath=/api/v1

When I click the Entry point link the browser redirects to '/' which is incorrect in my case.

I've noticed that spring-boot-actuator replaces the entryPoint value by preprocessing the index.html/browser.html resource before serving it out to the client. See

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/blob/1.5.x/spring-boot-actuator/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/actuate/endpoint/mvc/HalBrowserMvcEndpoint.java#replaceInitialLink