Other Representations

Sometimes though you may want to extend or change the representations generated. This might be because you want to write a RESTful client that uses a particular library (say a JavaScript library or web components) that can only handle representations in a certain form.

Or, you might want to have Apache Causeway generate representations according to some other "standard", of which there are many:

A good discussion about the relative merits of several of these different hypermedia formats can be found here.

Or, of course, you may have your own internal specification that you wish to use.

Supporting any of these alternative representations can be achieved by providing a suitable implementation of ContentNegotiationService. The existing implementations can be used as a starting point.