spring mvc - Difference between @RestController and @RepositoryRestController

Question

What is the typical use case code that shows the difference between those two annotations - meaning the @RestController and the @RepositoryRestController - ?

Answer 1

According to the annotation the RepositoryRestController is a way to provide custom controllers that still take advantage of spring data rest functionality

http://docs.spring.io/spring-data/rest/docs/current/reference/html/#customizing-sdr.overriding-sdr-response-handlers

Sometimes you may want to write a custom handler for a specific resource. To take advantage of Spring Data REST’s settings, message converters, exception handling, and more, use the @RepositoryRestController annotation instead of a standard Spring MVC @Controller or @RestController.

Most importantly the RepositoryRestController is aware of the spring data rest base path and will be served under this base path.