Core concepts
The central interface in the Spring Data repository abstraction is Repository
. It takes the domain class to manage as well as the ID type of the domain class as type arguments. This interface acts primarily as a marker interface to capture the types to work with and to help you to discover interfaces that extend this one. The CrudRepository
provides sophisticated CRUD functionality for the entity class that is being managed.
CrudRepository
interfacepublic interface CrudRepository<T, ID> extends Repository<T, ID> {
<S extends T> S save(S entity); (1)
Optional<T> findById(ID primaryKey); (2)
Iterable<T> findAll(); (3)
long count(); (4)
void delete(T entity); (5)
boolean existsById(ID primaryKey); (6)
// … more functionality omitted.
}
1 | Saves the given entity. |
2 | Returns the entity identified by the given ID. |
3 | Returns all entities. |
4 | Returns the number of entities. |
5 | Deletes the given entity. |
6 | Indicates whether an entity with the given ID exists. |
We also provide persistence technology-specific abstractions, such as JpaRepository or MongoRepository . Those interfaces extend CrudRepository and expose the capabilities of the underlying persistence technology in addition to the rather generic persistence technology-agnostic interfaces such as CrudRepository .
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On top of the CrudRepository
, there is a PagingAndSortingRepository
abstraction that adds additional methods to ease paginated access to entities:
PagingAndSortingRepository
interfacepublic interface PagingAndSortingRepository<T, ID> extends CrudRepository<T, ID> {
Iterable<T> findAll(Sort sort);
Page<T> findAll(Pageable pageable);
}
To access the second page of User
by a page size of 20, you could do something like the following:
PagingAndSortingRepository<User, Long> repository = // … get access to a bean
Page<User> users = repository.findAll(PageRequest.of(1, 20));
In addition to query methods, query derivation for both count and delete queries is available. The following list shows the interface definition for a derived count query:
interface UserRepository extends CrudRepository<User, Long> {
long countByLastname(String lastname);
}
The following list shows the interface definition for a derived delete query:
interface UserRepository extends CrudRepository<User, Long> {
long deleteByLastname(String lastname);
List<User> removeByLastname(String lastname);
}