Refresh and fetch an entity after save (JPA/Spring Data/Hibernate)

Instead of defining EntityManager in each of your resource, you can define it once by creating a Custom JpaRepository. Reference

Then use the refresh of your EntityManager in each of your repository directly.

Refer the below example:

CustomRepository Interface

import org.springframework.data.jpa.repository.JpaRepository;
import org.springframework.data.repository.NoRepositoryBean;

import java.io.Serializable;

@NoRepositoryBean
public interface CustomRepository<T, ID extends Serializable> extends JpaRepository<T, ID> {
  void refresh(T t);
}

CustomRepository Implementation

import org.springframework.data.jpa.repository.support.JpaEntityInformation;
import org.springframework.data.jpa.repository.support.SimpleJpaRepository;
import org.springframework.transaction.annotation.Transactional;

import javax.persistence.EntityManager;
import java.io.Serializable;

public class CustomRepositoryImpl<T, ID extends Serializable> extends SimpleJpaRepository<T, ID>
    implements CustomRepository<T, ID> {

  private final EntityManager entityManager;

  public CustomRepositoryImpl(JpaEntityInformation entityInformation, EntityManager entityManager) {
    super(entityInformation, entityManager);
    this.entityManager = entityManager;
  }

  @Override
  @Transactional
  public void refresh(T t) {
    entityManager.refresh(t);
  }
}

Enable Custom JPARepository in Spring Boot Application Class

@SpringBootApplication
@EnableJpaRepositories (repositoryBaseClass = CustomRepositoryImpl.class)
public class Application {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
  }
}

Your Something Repository

public interface SomethingRepository extends CustomRepository<Something, Long> {

}

Use Refresh directly in SomethingResource (Assuming Something is an Entity)

@RestController
@RequestMapping("/api")
@Transactional
public class SomethingResource {

    private final SomethingRepository somethingRepository;

    public SomethingResource(SomethingRepository somethingRepository) {
        this.somethingRepository = somethingRepository;
    }

    @PostMapping("/somethings")
    public Something createSomething(@RequestBody Something something) throws URISyntaxException {
        Something result = somethingRepository.save(something);
        somethingRepository.refresh(result);
        return result;
    }
}