spring boot - HATEOAS methods not found -

my controller can't seem find hateoas methods "linkto".

am missing something?

pom.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/pom/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/xmlschema-instance"     xsi:schemalocation="http://maven.apache.org/pom/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">     <modelversion>4.0.0</modelversion>      <groupid>org.springframework</groupid>     <artifactid>provider</artifactid>     <version>0.1.0</version>      <parent>         <groupid>org.springframework.boot</groupid>         <artifactid>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactid>         <version>1.1.5.release</version>     </parent>      <dependencies>          <dependency>             <groupid>org.springframework.boot</groupid>             <artifactid>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactid>         </dependency>          <!-- spring security -->         <!-- auto configured, remove dependencies disable. -->         <dependency>             <groupid>org.springframework.security</groupid>             <artifactid>spring-security-web</artifactid>         </dependency>          <dependency>             <groupid>org.springframework.security</groupid>             <artifactid>spring-security-config</artifactid>         </dependency>          <!-- oauth 2.0 -->         <dependency>             <groupid>org.springframework.security.oauth</groupid>             <artifactid>spring-security-oauth2</artifactid>             <version>2.0.1.release</version>         </dependency>          <dependency>             <groupid>org.springframework</groupid>             <artifactid>spring-test</artifactid>         </dependency>          <dependency>             <groupid>org.springframework</groupid>             <artifactid>spring-test-mvc</artifactid>             <version>1.0.0.m2</version>             <scope>test</scope>         </dependency>          <dependency>             <groupid>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupid>             <artifactid>jackson-databind</artifactid>         </dependency>          <!-- spring mongodb -->         <dependency>             <groupid>org.springframework.data</groupid>             <artifactid>spring-data-mongodb</artifactid>         </dependency>          <!-- spring rest mvc -->         <dependency>             <groupid>org.springframework.data</groupid>             <artifactid>spring-data-rest-webmvc</artifactid>         </dependency>          <!-- dozer: dto/entity mapper -->         <dependency>             <groupid>net.sf.dozer</groupid>             <artifactid>dozer</artifactid>             <version>5.3.2</version>         </dependency>          <dependency>             <groupid>org.springframework.boot</groupid>             <artifactid>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactid>         </dependency>          <dependency>             <groupid>joda-time</groupid>             <artifactid>joda-time</artifactid>         </dependency>      </dependencies>      <properties>         <start-class>com.provider.core.application</start-class>     </properties>      <build>         <plugins>             <plugin>                  <artifactid>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactid>              </plugin>             <plugin>                 <groupid>org.springframework.boot</groupid>                 <artifactid>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactid>             </plugin>         </plugins>     </build>      <repositories>         <repository>             <id>spring-snapshots</id>             <url>http://repo.spring.io/libs-snapshot</url>             <snapshots><enabled>true</enabled></snapshots>         </repository>     </repositories>     <pluginrepositories>         <pluginrepository>             <id>spring-snapshots</id>             <url>http://repo.spring.io/libs-snapshot</url>             <snapshots><enabled>true</enabled></snapshots>         </pluginrepository>     </pluginrepositories> </project> 

controller

package com.provider.core;  import org.dozer.dozerbeanmapper; import org.dozer.mapper; import org.slf4j.logger; import org.slf4j.loggerfactory; import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.autowired; import org.springframework.http.httpentity; import org.springframework.http.httpstatus; import org.springframework.http.responseentity; import org.springframework.stereotype.controller; import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.requestbody; import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.requestmapping; import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.requestmethod; import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.responsebody;  import com.provider.account.account; import com.provider.account.accountdto;  @controller public class accountcontroller {     private static final logger logger = loggerfactory.getlogger(accountcontroller.class);     @autowired private accountrepository repo;      @requestmapping(value = "account", method = requestmethod.post)     public @responsebody httpentity<accountdto> createaccount(@requestbody accountdto accountdto) {         logger.info("start createaccount()");         mapper mapper = new dozerbeanmapper();         account account = mapper.map(accountdto, account.class);         account savedaccount = repo.save(account);         accountdto savedaccountdto = mapper.map(savedaccount, accountdto.class);          // not compile "linkto" not defined.         savedaccountdto.add(linkto(accountcontroller.class).slash(savedaccountdto.getid()).withselfrel());          return new responseentity<accountdto>(savedaccountdto, httpstatus.ok);     } } 

looks pom missing spring-hateoas dependency.

so first add pom.xml:

<dependency>     <groupid>org.springframework.hateoas</groupid>     <artifactid>spring-hateoas</artifactid>     <version>0.15.0.release</version> </dependency> 

then can add static import , code should compile:

import static org.springframework.hateoas.mvc.controllerlinkbuilder.*