Change the default representation pattern for content jaxrs resources to have more context in the represent method

Not yet sure how much extra context we need. Currently we have something like:

HippoFolderRepresentation folderRep = new HippoFolderRepresentation().represent(folderBean);

Now, the difficulty with this pattern is, that we cannot easily in the representation also show all the documents and create a link for the documents. Therefore, we at least need something like:

represent(folderBean, requestContext);

However, do we need more context? Like the request and response?

Also, imo, I would like to be able in the representation to have the Link facilities, for example:

protected Link getNodeLink(
protected Link getRestLink(

but now they can be only called from a Resource, not from a representation. I want to be able to easily create links in representation code as well.