We wanted to add repositories with domain-specific operations. We started by creating a movie-specific repository, simply by creating an empty interface. It is more convenient to work with a named interface rather than different versions of a generic one.

package org.neo4j.cineasts.repository;
public interface MovieRepository extends GraphRepository<Movie> {}

Then we added it to the Spring context configuration by simply adding:

<neo4j:repositories base-package="org.neo4j.cineasts.repository"/>

We then created the domain-specific repository class, annotating it with @Repository and @Transactional, and injected the movie repository.

@Repository @Transactional
public class CineastsRepostory {
  @Autowired MovieRepository movieRepository;

  public Movie getMovie(int id) {
      return movieRepository.findByPropertyValue("id", id);
  }
}

We did the same for the actors and users.