Configuration

As a starting point for using Spring Data Envers, you need a project with Spring Data JPA on the classpath and an additional spring-data-envers dependency:

<dependencies>

  <!-- other dependency elements omitted -->

  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-data-envers</artifactId>
    <version>3.4.0</version>
  </dependency>

</dependencies>

This also brings hibernate-envers into the project as a transient dependency.

To enable Spring Data Envers and Spring Data JPA, we need to configure two beans and a special repositoryFactoryBeanClass:

@Configuration
@EnableEnversRepositories
@EnableTransactionManagement
public class EnversDemoConfiguration {

	@Bean
	public DataSource dataSource() {

		EmbeddedDatabaseBuilder builder = new EmbeddedDatabaseBuilder();
		return builder.setType(EmbeddedDatabaseType.HSQL).build();
	}

	@Bean
	public LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean entityManagerFactory() {

		HibernateJpaVendorAdapter vendorAdapter = new HibernateJpaVendorAdapter();
		vendorAdapter.setGenerateDdl(true);

		LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean factory = new LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean();
		factory.setJpaVendorAdapter(vendorAdapter);
		factory.setPackagesToScan("example.springdata.jpa.envers");
		factory.setDataSource(dataSource());
		return factory;
	}

	@Bean
	public PlatformTransactionManager transactionManager(EntityManagerFactory entityManagerFactory) {

		JpaTransactionManager txManager = new JpaTransactionManager();
		txManager.setEntityManagerFactory(entityManagerFactory);
		return txManager;
	}
}

To actually use Spring Data Envers, make one or more repositories into a RevisionRepository by adding it as an extended interface:

interface PersonRepository
    extends CrudRepository<Person, Long>,
    RevisionRepository<Person, Long, Long> (1)
{}

1	The first type parameter (`Person`) denotes the entity type, the second (`Long`) denotes the type of the id property, and the last one (`Long`) is the type of the revision number. For Envers in default configuration, the revision number parameter should be `Integer` or `Long`.

The entity for that repository must be an entity with Envers auditing enabled (that is, it must have an @Audited annotation):

@Entity
@Audited
class Person {

	@Id @GeneratedValue
	Long id;
	String name;
	@Version Long version;
}