Choosing Between Resource, EntityModel & RepresentationModel in Spring HATEOAS
When building hypermedia-driven REST APIs using Spring HATEOAS, a critical decision is how to model your API responses — especially how to wrap your domain data alongside hypermedia links. Spring HATEOAS provides several wrapper classes, mainly Resource (now deprecated), EntityModel, and RepresentationModel. Understanding these and related types like CollectionModel and PagedModel helps you design clean, …
