title: Spring Data REST in plain JSON (not HAL format)
body: <p>How exactly should Spring Data Rest be configured to return plain JSON instead of HAL (JSON with Hypermedia like links)</p>
  
  <p>Related</p>
  
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  <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28639659/spring-returns-resource-in-pure-json-not-in-hal-format-when-including-spring-dat">Spring returns Resource in pure JSON not in HAL Format when including spring data rest</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29274067/spring-data-rest-disable-self-linkshal-in-json">Spring Data Rest -Disable self links(HAL) in Json</a></li>
  <li>and big <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23264044/spring-data-rest-disable-hypertext-application-language-hal-in-json-applica">Disable Hypertext Application Language (HAL) in JSON?</a></li>
  <li>using <a href="http://jsonapi.org/" rel="noreferrer">jsonapi</a> instead of HAL <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28844686/changing-the-json-format-for-spring-data-rest">Changing the JSON format for spring-data-rest</a></li>
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