Spring Boot 2.2 apps should use spring-data-rest-hal-explorer rather than spring-data-rest-hal-browser

[wilkinsona]

The following warning is generated at startup with the current configuration:

2019-07-08 10:58:52.310  WARN 40615 --- [           main] o.s.d.rest.webmvc.halbrowser.HalBrowser  : Spring Data REST HAL Browser is deprecated! Prefer the HAL Explorer (artifactId: spring-data-rest-hal-explorer)!

[wilkinsona]

We shouldn't rush to do this. After making the recommended switch both Chrome and Safari on macOS beach ball and the browser process consumes 100% CPU.

[snicoll]

@wilkinsona do you remember the version you used or if there is an update for this one?

[wilkinsona]

🤦‍♂ That would have been a good thing to note, wouldn't it. Sorry, I can't remember now.

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[dennishendriksen]

Workaround:

<dependency>
	<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
	<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-rest</artifactId>
	<exclusions>
		<!-- exclude deprecated module in favor of spring-data-rest-hal-explorer -->
		<exclusion>
			<groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
			<artifactId>spring-data-rest-hal-browser</artifactId>
		</exclusion>
	</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
	<groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
	<artifactId>spring-data-rest-hal-explorer</artifactId>
</dependency>

[snicoll]

Oops. I've overlooked this one. This has been superseded by #516 as the browser is deprecated for a while now and removed in Spring Data 2020.0.