How are Spring Data repositories actually implemented?

First of all, there’s no code generation going on, which means: no CGLib, no byte-code generation at all. The fundamental approach is that a JDK proxy instance is created programmatically using Spring’s ProxyFactory API to back the interface and a MethodInterceptor intercepts all calls to the instance and routes the method into the appropriate places: … Read more

Dynamic spring data jpa repository query with arbitrary AND clauses

You can use Specifications that Spring-data gives you out of the box. and be able to use criteria API to build queries programmatically.To support specifications you can extend your repository interface with the JpaSpecificationExecutor interface public interface CustomerRepository extends SimpleJpaRepository<T, ID>, JpaSpecificationExecutor { } The additional interface(JpaSpecificationExecutor ) carries methods that allow you to execute … Read more

How to add custom method to Spring Data JPA

You need to create a separate interface for your custom methods: public interface AccountRepository extends JpaRepository<Account, Long>, AccountRepositoryCustom { … } public interface AccountRepositoryCustom { public void customMethod(); } and provide an implementation class for that interface: public class AccountRepositoryImpl implements AccountRepositoryCustom { @Autowired @Lazy AccountRepository accountRepository; /* Optional – if you need it */ … Read more

How to properly use findBySomeOtherId not findById in Spring data jpa?

Please use this InterviewStatus findByInterviewId(Interviews interviewId); where interviewId is gotten by running Interviews findById(Long id). Due to the datatype conflict, it is ok that you pass in as parameter the expected datatype. so it is expecting Interviews not Integer, but you have integer. in this case, you get Interviews using the integer then pass the … Read more