Spring Data JPA – Multiple EnableJpaRepositories

In order to let spring knows what DataSource is related to what Repository you should define it at the @EnableJpaRepositories annotation. Let’s assume that we have two entities, the Servers entity and the Domains entity and each one has its own Repo then each Repository has its own JpaDataSource configuration.

1. Group all the repositories based on the Data Source that they are related to. For example

Repository for Domains entities (package: org.springdemo.multiple.datasources.repository.domains):

package org.springdemo.multiple.datasources.repository.domains;

import org.springdemo.multiple.datasources.domain.domains.Domains;
import org.springframework.data.jpa.repository.JpaRepository;

public interface DomainsRepository extends JpaRepository<Domains,Long> {
}

Repository for Servers entities (package: org.springdemo.multiple.datasources.repository.servers)

package org.springdemo.multiple.datasources.repository.servers;

import org.springdemo.multiple.datasources.domain.servers.Servers;
import org.springframework.data.jpa.repository.JpaRepository;

public interface ServersRepository extends JpaRepository<Servers,Long> {
}

2. For each JPA Data Soruce you need to define a configuration, in this example I show how to configure two different DataSources

Domains Jpa Configuration: the relationship between the Data Source and the repository is defined in the basePackages value, that is the reason why is necessary to group the repositories in different packages depending on the entity manager that each repo will use.

@Configuration
@EnableJpaRepositories(
        entityManagerFactoryRef = "domainsEntityManager",
        transactionManagerRef = "domainsTransactionManager",
        basePackages = {"org.springdemo.multiple.datasources.repository.domains"}
        )
public class DomainsConfig {

Servers Data Source Configuration: as you can see the basePackages value has the package name of the Servers Repository , and also the values of entityManagerFactoryRef and transactionManagerRef are different in order to let spring separate each entityManager.

@Configuration
@EnableJpaRepositories(
        entityManagerFactoryRef = "serversEntityManager",
        transactionManagerRef = "serversTransactionManager",
        basePackages = {"org.springdemo.multiple.datasources.repository.servers"}
        )
public class ServersConfig {

3. Set one Datasource as primary

In order to avoid the error message: Parameter 0 of constructor in org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.orm.jpa.HibernateJpaAutoConfiguration required a single bean, but 2 were found: just set one of the datasource as @Primary, in this example I select the Servers Datasource as primary:

@Bean("serversDataSourceProperties")
@Primary
@ConfigurationProperties("app.datasource.servers")
public DataSourceProperties serversDataSourceProperties(){
    return new DataSourceProperties();
}



@Bean("serversDataSource")
@Primary
@ConfigurationProperties("app.datasource.servers")
public DataSource serversDataSource(@Qualifier("serversDataSourceProperties") DataSourceProperties serversDataSourceProperties) {
    return serversDataSourceProperties().initializeDataSourceBuilder().build();
}

If you need more information please see the full example for each configuration:

Servers JPA Configuration

@Configuration
@EnableJpaRepositories(
        entityManagerFactoryRef = "serversEntityManager",
        transactionManagerRef = "serversTransactionManager",
        basePackages = {"org.springdemo.multiple.datasources.repository.servers"}
        )
public class ServersConfig {

    @Bean(name = "serversEntityManager")
    public LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean getServersEntityManager(EntityManagerFactoryBuilder builder,
                                                                          @Qualifier("serversDataSource") DataSource serversDataSource){


        return builder
                .dataSource(serversDataSource)
                .packages("org.springdemo.multiple.datasources.domain.servers")
                .persistenceUnit("servers")
                .properties(additionalJpaProperties())
                .build();

    }

    Map<String,?> additionalJpaProperties(){
        Map<String,String> map = new HashMap<>();

        map.put("hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto", "create");
        map.put("hibernate.dialect", "org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect");
        map.put("hibernate.show_sql", "true");

        return map;
    }


    @Bean("serversDataSourceProperties")
    @Primary
    @ConfigurationProperties("app.datasource.servers")
    public DataSourceProperties serversDataSourceProperties(){
        return new DataSourceProperties();
    }



    @Bean("serversDataSource")
    @Primary
    @ConfigurationProperties("app.datasource.servers")
    public DataSource serversDataSource(@Qualifier("serversDataSourceProperties") DataSourceProperties serversDataSourceProperties) {
        return serversDataSourceProperties().initializeDataSourceBuilder().build();
    }

    @Bean(name = "serversTransactionManager")
    public JpaTransactionManager transactionManager(@Qualifier("serversEntityManager") EntityManagerFactory serversEntityManager){
        JpaTransactionManager transactionManager = new JpaTransactionManager();
        transactionManager.setEntityManagerFactory(serversEntityManager);

        return transactionManager;
    }
}

Domains JPA Configuration

@Configuration
@EnableJpaRepositories(
        entityManagerFactoryRef = "domainsEntityManager",
        transactionManagerRef = "domainsTransactionManager",
        basePackages = {"org.springdemo.multiple.datasources.repository.domains"}
        )
public class DomainsConfig {

    @Bean(name = "domainsEntityManager")
    public LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean getdomainsEntityManager(EntityManagerFactoryBuilder builder
    ,@Qualifier("domainsDataSource") DataSource domainsDataSource){

        return builder
                .dataSource(domainsDataSource)
                .packages("org.springdemo.multiple.datasources.domain.domains")
                .persistenceUnit("domains")
                .properties(additionalJpaProperties())
                .build();

    }


    Map<String,?> additionalJpaProperties(){
        Map<String,String> map = new HashMap<>();

        map.put("hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto", "create");
        map.put("hibernate.dialect", "org.hibernate.dialect.H2Dialect");
        map.put("hibernate.show_sql", "true");

        return map;
    }


    @Bean("domainsDataSourceProperties")
    @ConfigurationProperties("app.datasource.domains")
    public DataSourceProperties domainsDataSourceProperties(){
        return new DataSourceProperties();
    }


    @Bean("domainsDataSource")
    public DataSource domainsDataSource(@Qualifier("domainsDataSourceProperties") DataSourceProperties domainsDataSourceProperties) {
        return domainsDataSourceProperties.initializeDataSourceBuilder().build();
    }

    @Bean(name = "domainsTransactionManager")
    public JpaTransactionManager transactionManager(@Qualifier("domainsEntityManager") EntityManagerFactory domainsEntityManager){
        JpaTransactionManager transactionManager = new JpaTransactionManager();
        transactionManager.setEntityManagerFactory(domainsEntityManager);

        return transactionManager;
    }

}

In order to separate each datasource I put the configuration in the application.properties file, like this:

app.datasource.domains.url=jdbc:h2:mem:~/test
app.datasource.domains.driver-class-name=org.h2.Driver


app.datasource.servers.driver-class-name=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
app.datasource.servers.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/v?autoReconnect=true&useSSL=false
app.datasource.servers.username=myuser
app.datasource.servers.password=mypass

If you need more information please see the following documentation:

Spring Documentation: howto-two-datasources

A similar example of how configure two different databases: github example