@EnableHypermediaSupport does not provide a ContollerEntityLinks bean when using WebFlux

[wilkinsona]

The documentation currently states that ControllerEntityLinks will be included in the default setup but that does not appear to be the case when using WebFlux.

[gregturn]

I have dug in a little, and discovered that to implement this, we need a WebFluxLinkBuilderFactory. The contract underlying this (WebFluxLinkBuilder) is very different than WebMvcLinkBuilder, as in, Reactor-based types, functional concepts, and different inputs (ServerWebExchange).

I'm not convinced the abstraction in place that creates a ControllerEntityLinks bean by injecting a link building factory is a drop in for WebFlux. It appears heavily driven by Spring MVC.

The implication is that we need something more akin to a WebMvcControllerEntityLinks bean and a WebFluxControllerEntityLinks bean.

Thoughts @odrotbohm?

[gregturn]

Resolved via 36baafe.

[gregturn]

Follow #1071 to track adding a WebFlux-specific EntityLinks variant.