protected void writeEntry(
      StreamWriter writer,
      String entityName,
      Entity entity,
      Collection<Link> entityLinks,
      Map<Transition, RESTResource> embeddedResources,
      String baseUri,
      String absoluteId,
      String updated) {
    assert (entityName != null);

    // entity name could be different between entity resource and underlying entity
    // e.g., for Errors entity, entity resource would have the request entity name
    String entityMetadataName = entity != null ? entity.getName() : entityName;

    EntityMetadata entityMetadata = metadata.getEntityMetadata(entityMetadataName);
    String modelName = metadata.getModelName();
    writer.writeId(absoluteId);
    OAtomEntity oae = getAtomInfo(entity);

    writer.writeTitle(oae.getAtomEntityTitle());
    String summary = oae.getAtomEntitySummary();
    if (!summary.isEmpty()) {
      writer.writeSummary(summary);
    }

    LocalDateTime updatedTime = oae.getAtomEntityUpdated();
    if (updatedTime != null) {
      updated = InternalUtil.toString(updatedTime.toDateTime(DateTimeZone.UTC));
    }

    writer.writeUpdated(updated);
    writer.writeAuthor(oae.getAtomEntityAuthor());

    if (entityLinks != null) {
      for (Link link : entityLinks) {
        String type =
            (link.getTransition().getTarget() instanceof CollectionResourceState)
                ? atom_feed_content_type
                : atom_entry_content_type;
        String href = link.getRelativeHref(baseUri);
        String rel = link.getRel();
        writer.startLink(href, rel);

        if ("self".equals(link.getRel())) {
          ResourceState target = link.getTransition().getTarget();
          writer.writeAttribute("profile", target.getRel());
        }

        if (!"self".equals(link.getRel()) && !"edit".equals(link.getRel())) {
          writer.writeAttribute("type", type);
        }
        writer.writeAttribute("title", link.getTitle());
        if (embeddedResources != null && embeddedResources.get(link.getTransition()) != null) {
          String embeddedAbsoluteId = link.getHref();
          writeLinkInline(
              writer,
              metadata,
              link,
              embeddedResources.get(link.getTransition()),
              link.getHref(),
              baseUri,
              embeddedAbsoluteId,
              updated);
        }
        String linkId = link.getLinkId();
        if (linkId != null && linkId.length() > 0) {
          writer.writeAttribute("id", linkId);
        }
        writer.endLink();
      }
    }

    writer.writeCategory(modelName + Metadata.MODEL_SUFFIX + "." + entityName, scheme);
    writer.flush();

    writer.startContent(MediaType.APPLICATION_XML);

    writer.startElement(new QName(m, "properties", "m"));
    if (entity != null) {
      writeProperties(writer, entityMetadata, entity.getProperties(), modelName);
    }
    writer.endElement();

    writer.endContent();
  }