Spring Data JPA - Reference Documentation
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Spring Data JPA - Reference Documentation

Authors

Oliver Gierke, Thomas Darimont, Christoph Strobl

1.5.3.RELEASE

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Table of Contents

Preface

1. Project metadata

I. Reference Documentation

1. Working with Spring Data Repositories

1.1. Core concepts

1.2. Query methods

1.2.1. Defining repository interfaces

Fine-tuning repository definition

1.2.2. Defining query methods

Query lookup strategies
Query creation
Property expressions
Special parameter handling

1.2.3. Creating repository instances

XML configuration
JavaConfig
Standalone usage

1.3. Custom implementations for Spring Data repositories

1.3.1. Adding custom behavior to single repositories
1.3.2. Adding custom behavior to all repositories

1.4. Spring Data extensions

1.4.1. Web support

Basic web support
Hypermedia support for Pageables

1.4.2. Repository populators

1.4.3. Legacy web support

Domain class web binding for Spring MVC
Web pagination

2. JPA Repositories

2.1. Introduction

2.1.1. Spring namespace
2.1.2. Annotation based configuration

2.2. Persisting entities

2.2.1. Saving entities

2.3. Query methods

2.3.1. Query lookup strategies
2.3.2. Query creation
2.3.3. Using JPA NamedQueries
2.3.4. Using @Query
2.3.5. Using named parameters
2.3.6. Using SpEL expressions
2.3.7. Modifying queries
2.3.8. Applying query hints

2.4. Specifications

2.5. Transactionality

2.5.1. Transactional query methods

2.6. Locking

2.7. Auditing

2.7.1. Basics

Annotation based auditing metadata
Interface-based auditing metadata
AuditorAware

2.7.2. General auditing configuration

2.8. Miscellaneous

2.8.1. Merging persistence units
2.8.2. Classpath scanning for @Entity classes and JPA mapping files
2.8.3. CDI integration

II. Appendix

A. Namespace reference

A.1. The <repositories /> element

B. Repository query keywords

B.1. Supported query keywords

C. Frequently asked questions

Glossary

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