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• Add private properties
  • Add a property to the class DSpaceObjectRest
• Add a get/set method
  
• Add get and set to the class DSpaceObjectRest
• To exclude a property from JSON representation, add @JsonIgnore to the get method or to the property
  • Example of exclusion in the class DSpaceObjectRest
  • Another example of exclusion in the class DSpaceObjectRest

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1. wrap the linked REST resource inside a DSpaceResource (so to have the identifier, self link, and links to other resources). The wrapper is actually created by the Repository responsible of the specific resource (ItemRepository, BitstreamRepository, etc.) 
   1. https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/blob/rest7master/dspace-spring-rest/src/main/java/org/dspace/app/rest/model/hateoas/DSpaceResource.java#L58
      This give a chance to add custom logic for extra links in specific resource
2. put the wrapper in the embedded section 
3. clean the attribute (not sure if useful/required/right): 
   1.  https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/blob/rest7master/dspace-spring-rest/src/main/java/org/dspace/app/rest/model/hateoas/DSpaceResource.java#L64

Converter Object: org.dspace.app.rest.converter.DSpaceObjectConverter

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• In the fromModel() function, map all object attributes from the persistence/hibernate model to the rest model
  • https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/blob/rest7master/dspace-spring-rest/src/main/java/org/dspace/app/rest/converter/DSpaceObjectConverter.java#L33-L50

Repository Object: org.dspace.app.rest.repository.DSpaceRestRepository

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