Accessing a Spring Data REST API With Feign

Question

I am trying to consume a Rest CRUD API with Feign Client. I've added the HATEOAS dependency to the Client application.

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-hateoas</artifactId>
</dependency>

And here is the Client Interface

@FeignClient(name="core-service")
@RibbonClient(name="core-service")
public interface VoteClient {

    @RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET, path = "/candidates")
    Resources<Candidate> getCandidates();

    @RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET, path = "/candidates/{id}")
    Resource<Candidate> getCandidate(@PathVariable("id") long id);

}

But Here I still have "Candidate cannot be resolved to a Type" How can I do to read Candidate, which an Entity in the Rest Service, in the Rest Client ?

Is this a Java compiler error? If so, the Client needs to have Candidate.java imported. — DavidX, Jan 27 '18 at 20:26
Yes when I clicked "fix project setup" and the project where Candidate is defined was imported. Problem fixed! Thank you! — Judy1989, Jan 27 '18 at 20:40
No problem! I've added a answer just incase someone else runs into this. Please accept it if you can! — DavidX, Jan 27 '18 at 21:29

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 27 '18 at 21:29

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It's a Java compiler error. The client needs Candidate.java imported on the client. It can be fixed with "Fix Project Setup" on the IDE, or adding the library to the classpath and importing the relevant package.

answered Jan 27 '18 at 21:29

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