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Preface
The Spring Data R2DBC project applies core Spring concepts to the development of solutions that use the R2DBC drivers for relational databases.
We provide a DatabaseClient
as a high-level abstraction for storing and querying rows.
This document is the reference guide for Spring Data - R2DBC Support. It explains R2DBC module concepts and semantics and.
This section provides some basic introduction to Spring and databases.
1. Learning Spring
Spring Data uses Spring framework’s core functionality, including:
While you need not know the Spring APIs, understanding the concepts behind them is important. At a minimum, the idea behind Inversion of Control (IoC) should be familiar, and you should be familiar with whatever IoC container you choose to use.
You can use the core functionality of the R2DBC support directly, with no need to invoke the IoC services of the Spring Container.
This is much like JdbcTemplate
, which can be used “standalone” without any other services of the Spring container.
To use all the features of Spring Data R2DBC, such as the repository support, you need to configure some parts of the library to use Spring.
To learn more about Spring, refer to the comprehensive documentation that explains the Spring Framework in detail. There are a lot of articles, blog entries, and books on the subject. See the Spring framework home page for more information.
2. What is R2DBC?
R2DBC is the acronym for Reactive Relational Database Connectivity. R2DBC is an API specification initiative that declares a reactive API to be implemented by driver vendors to access their relational databases.
Part of the answer as to why R2DBC was created is the need for a non-blocking application stack to handle concurrency with a small number of threads and scale with fewer hardware resources.
This need cannot be satisfied by reusing standardized relational database access APIs — namely JDBC –- as JDBC is a fully blocking API.
Attempts to compensate for blocking behavior with a ThreadPool
are of limited use.
The other part of the answer is that most applications use a relational database to store their data. While several NoSQL database vendors provide reactive database clients for their databases, migration to NoSQL is not an option for most projects. This was the motivation for a new common API to serve as a foundation for any non-blocking database driver. While the open source ecosystem hosts various non-blocking relational database driver implementations, each client comes with a vendor-specific API, so a generic layer on top of these libraries is not possible.
3. What is Reactive?
The term, “reactive”, refers to programming models that are built around reacting to change, availability, and processability -— network components reacting to I/O events, UI controllers reacting to mouse events, resources being made available, and others. In that sense, non-blocking is reactive, because, instead of being blocked, we are now in the mode of reacting to notifications as operations complete or data becomes available.
There is also another important mechanism that we on the Spring team associate with reactive, and that is non-blocking back pressure. In synchronous, imperative code, blocking calls serve as a natural form of back pressure that forces the caller to wait. In non-blocking code, it becomes essential to control the rate of events so that a fast producer does not overwhelm its destination.
Reactive Streams is a small spec (also adopted in Java 9) that defines the interaction between asynchronous components with back pressure.
For example, a data repository (acting as a Publisher
) can produce data that an HTTP server (acting as a Subscriber
) can then write to the response.
The main purpose of Reactive Streams is to let the subscriber control how quickly or how slowly the publisher produces data.
4. Reactive API
Reactive Streams plays an important role for interoperability. It is of interest to libraries and infrastructure components but less useful as an application API, because it is too low-level. Applications need a higher-level and richer, functional API to compose async logic —- similar to the Java 8 Stream API but not only for tables. This is the role that reactive libraries play.
Project Reactor is the reactive library of choice for Spring Data R2DBC.
It provides the Mono
and Flux
API types to work on data sequences of 0..1
(Mono
) and 0..N
(Flux
) through a rich set of operators aligned with the ReactiveX vocabulary of operators.
Reactor is a Reactive Streams library, and, therefore, all of its operators support non-blocking back pressure.
Reactor has a strong focus on server-side Java. It is developed in close collaboration with Spring.
Spring Data R2DBC requires Project Reactor as a core dependency, but it is interoperable with other reactive libraries through the Reactive Streams specification.
As a general rule, a Spring Data R2DBC repository accepts a plain Publisher
as input, adapts it to a Reactor type internally, uses that, and returns either a Mono
or a Flux
as output.
So, you can pass any Publisher
as input and apply operations on the output, but you need to adapt the output for use with another reactive library.
Whenever feasible, Spring Data adapts transparently to the use of RxJava or another reactive library.
5. Requirements
The Spring Data R2DBC 1.x binaries require:
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JDK level 8.0 and above
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Spring Framework 5.3.11 and above
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R2DBC Arabba-SR10 and above
6. Additional Help Resources
Learning a new framework is not always straightforward. In this section, we try to provide what we think is an easy-to-follow guide for starting with the Spring Data R2DBC module. However, if you encounter issues or you need advice, use one of the following links:
- Community Forum
-
Spring Data on Stack Overflow is a tag for all Spring Data (not just R2DBC) users to share information and help each other. Note that registration is needed only for posting.
- Professional Support
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Professional, from-the-source support, with guaranteed response time, is available from Pivotal Sofware, Inc., the company behind Spring Data and Spring.
7. Following Development
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For information on the Spring Data R2DBC source code repository, nightly builds, and snapshot artifacts, see the Spring Data R2DBC home page.
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You can help make Spring Data best serve the needs of the Spring community by interacting with developers through the community on Stack Overflow.
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If you encounter a bug or want to suggest an improvement, please create a ticket on the Spring Data R2DBC issue tracker.
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To stay up to date with the latest news and announcements in the Spring ecosystem, subscribe to the Spring Community Portal.
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You can also follow the Spring blog or the Spring Data project team on Twitter (SpringData).
8. Project Metadata
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Version control: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-data-r2dbc
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Bugtracker: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-data-r2dbc/issues
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Release repository: https://repo.spring.io/libs-release
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Milestone repository: https://repo.spring.io/libs-milestone
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Snapshot repository: https://repo.spring.io/libs-snapshot
9. New & Noteworthy
9.1. What’s New in Spring Data R2DBC 1.3.0
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Introduce Query by Example support.
9.2. What’s New in Spring Data R2DBC 1.2.0
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Deprecate Spring Data R2DBC
DatabaseClient
and move off deprecated API in favor of Spring R2DBC. Consult the Migration Guide for further details. -
Support for Entity Callbacks.
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Auditing through
@EnableR2dbcAuditing
. -
Support for
@Value
in persistence constructors. -
Support for Oracle’s R2DBC driver.
9.3. What’s New in Spring Data R2DBC 1.1.0
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Introduction of
R2dbcEntityTemplate
for entity-oriented operations. -
Support interface projections with
DatabaseClient.as(…)
. -
Support for
ExecuteFunction
andStatementFilterFunction
viaDatabaseClient.filter(…)
.
9.4. What’s New in Spring Data R2DBC 1.0.0
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Upgrade to R2DBC 0.8.0.RELEASE.
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@Modifying
annotation for query methods to consume affected row count. -
Repository
save(…)
with an associated ID completes withTransientDataAccessException
if the row does not exist in the database. -
Added
SingleConnectionConnectionFactory
for testing using connection singletons. -
Support for SpEL expressions in
@Query
. -
ConnectionFactory
routing throughAbstractRoutingConnectionFactory
. -
Utilities for schema initialization through
ResourceDatabasePopulator
andScriptUtils
. -
Propagation and reset of Auto-Commit and Isolation Level control through
TransactionDefinition
. -
Support for Entity-level converters.
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Kotlin extensions for reified generics and Coroutines.
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Add pluggable mechanism to register dialects.
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Support for named parameters.
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Initial R2DBC support through
DatabaseClient
. -
Initial Transaction support through
TransactionalDatabaseClient
. -
Initial R2DBC Repository Support through
R2dbcRepository
. -
Initial Dialect support for Postgres and Microsoft SQL Server.
10. Dependencies
Due to the different inception dates of individual Spring Data modules, most of them carry different major and minor version numbers. The easiest way to find compatible ones is to rely on the Spring Data Release Train BOM that we ship with the compatible versions defined. In a Maven project, you would declare this dependency in the <dependencyManagement />
section of your POM as follows:
<dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-data-bom</artifactId>
<version>2021.0.6</version>
<scope>import</scope>
<type>pom</type>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>
The current release train version is 2021.0.6
. The train version uses calver with the pattern YYYY.MINOR.MICRO
.
The version name follows ${calver}
for GA releases and service releases and the following pattern for all other versions: ${calver}-${modifier}
, where modifier
can be one of the following:
-
SNAPSHOT
: Current snapshots -
M1
,M2
, and so on: Milestones -
RC1
,RC2
, and so on: Release candidates
You can find a working example of using the BOMs in our Spring Data examples repository. With that in place, you can declare the Spring Data modules you would like to use without a version in the <dependencies />
block, as follows:
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-data-jpa</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependencies>
10.1. Dependency Management with Spring Boot
Spring Boot selects a recent version of Spring Data modules for you. If you still want to upgrade to a newer version, set
the spring-data-releasetrain.version
property to the train version and iteration you would like to use.
11. Working with Spring Data Repositories
The goal of the Spring Data repository abstraction is to significantly reduce the amount of boilerplate code required to implement data access layers for various persistence stores.
Spring Data repository documentation and your module This chapter explains the core concepts and interfaces of Spring Data repositories. The information in this chapter is pulled from the Spring Data Commons module. It uses the configuration and code samples for the Java Persistence API (JPA) module. You should adapt the XML namespace declaration and the types to be extended to the equivalents of the particular module that you use. “[repositories.namespace-reference]” covers XML configuration, which is supported across all Spring Data modules that support the repository API. “Repository query keywords” covers the query method keywords supported by the repository abstraction in general. For detailed information on the specific features of your module, see the chapter on that module of this document. |
11.1. 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
interface 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 listing shows the interface definition for a derived delete query:
interface UserRepository extends CrudRepository<User, Long> {
long deleteByLastname(String lastname);
List<User> removeByLastname(String lastname);
}
11.2. Query Methods
Standard CRUD functionality repositories usually have queries on the underlying datastore. With Spring Data, declaring those queries becomes a four-step process:
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Declare an interface extending Repository or one of its subinterfaces and type it to the domain class and ID type that it should handle, as shown in the following example:
interface PersonRepository extends Repository<Person, Long> { … }
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Declare query methods on the interface.
interface PersonRepository extends Repository<Person, Long> { List<Person> findByLastname(String lastname); }
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Set up Spring to create proxy instances for those interfaces, either with JavaConfig or with XML configuration.
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To use Java configuration, create a class similar to the following:
import org.springframework.data.jpa.repository.config.EnableJpaRepositories; @EnableJpaRepositories class Config { … }
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To use XML configuration, define a bean similar to the following:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:jpa="http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa https://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa/spring-jpa.xsd"> <jpa:repositories base-package="com.acme.repositories"/> </beans>
The JPA namespace is used in this example. If you use the repository abstraction for any other store, you need to change this to the appropriate namespace declaration of your store module. In other words, you should exchange
jpa
in favor of, for example,mongodb
.Also, note that the JavaConfig variant does not configure a package explicitly, because the package of the annotated class is used by default. To customize the package to scan, use one of the
basePackage…
attributes of the data-store-specific repository’s@Enable${store}Repositories
-annotation.
-
-
Inject the repository instance and use it, as shown in the following example:
class SomeClient { private final PersonRepository repository; SomeClient(PersonRepository repository) { this.repository = repository; } void doSomething() { List<Person> persons = repository.findByLastname("Matthews"); } }
The sections that follow explain each step in detail:
11.3. Defining Repository Interfaces
To define a repository interface, you first need to define a domain class-specific repository interface.
The interface must extend Repository
and be typed to the domain class and an ID type.
If you want to expose CRUD methods for that domain type, extend CrudRepository
instead of Repository
.
11.3.1. Fine-tuning Repository Definition
Typically, your repository interface extends Repository
, CrudRepository
, or PagingAndSortingRepository
.
Alternatively, if you do not want to extend Spring Data interfaces, you can also annotate your repository interface with @RepositoryDefinition
.
Extending CrudRepository
exposes a complete set of methods to manipulate your entities.
If you prefer to be selective about the methods being exposed, copy the methods you want to expose from CrudRepository
into your domain repository.
Doing so lets you define your own abstractions on top of the provided Spring Data Repositories functionality. |
The following example shows how to selectively expose CRUD methods (findById
and save
, in this case):
@NoRepositoryBean
interface MyBaseRepository<T, ID> extends Repository<T, ID> {
Optional<T> findById(ID id);
<S extends T> S save(S entity);
}
interface UserRepository extends MyBaseRepository<User, Long> {
User findByEmailAddress(EmailAddress emailAddress);
}
In the prior example, you defined a common base interface for all your domain repositories and exposed findById(…)
as well as save(…)
.These methods are routed into the base repository implementation of the store of your choice provided by Spring Data (for example, if you use JPA, the implementation is SimpleJpaRepository
), because they match the method signatures in CrudRepository
.
So the UserRepository
can now save users, find individual users by ID, and trigger a query to find Users
by email address.
The intermediate repository interface is annotated with @NoRepositoryBean .
Make sure you add that annotation to all repository interfaces for which Spring Data should not create instances at runtime.
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11.3.2. Using Repositories with Multiple Spring Data Modules
Using a unique Spring Data module in your application makes things simple, because all repository interfaces in the defined scope are bound to the Spring Data module. Sometimes, applications require using more than one Spring Data module. In such cases, a repository definition must distinguish between persistence technologies. When it detects multiple repository factories on the class path, Spring Data enters strict repository configuration mode. Strict configuration uses details on the repository or the domain class to decide about Spring Data module binding for a repository definition:
-
If the repository definition extends the module-specific repository, it is a valid candidate for the particular Spring Data module.
-
If the domain class is annotated with the module-specific type annotation, it is a valid candidate for the particular Spring Data module. Spring Data modules accept either third-party annotations (such as JPA’s
@Entity
) or provide their own annotations (such as@Document
for Spring Data MongoDB and Spring Data Elasticsearch).
The following example shows a repository that uses module-specific interfaces (JPA in this case):
interface MyRepository extends JpaRepository<User, Long> { }
@NoRepositoryBean
interface MyBaseRepository<T, ID> extends JpaRepository<T, ID> { … }
interface UserRepository extends MyBaseRepository<User, Long> { … }
MyRepository
and UserRepository
extend JpaRepository
in their type hierarchy.
They are valid candidates for the Spring Data JPA module.
The following example shows a repository that uses generic interfaces:
interface AmbiguousRepository extends Repository<User, Long> { … }
@NoRepositoryBean
interface MyBaseRepository<T, ID> extends CrudRepository<T, ID> { … }
interface AmbiguousUserRepository extends MyBaseRepository<User, Long> { … }
AmbiguousRepository
and AmbiguousUserRepository
extend only Repository
and CrudRepository
in their type hierarchy.
While this is fine when using a unique Spring Data module, multiple modules cannot distinguish to which particular Spring Data these repositories should be bound.
The following example shows a repository that uses domain classes with annotations:
interface PersonRepository extends Repository<Person, Long> { … }
@Entity
class Person { … }
interface UserRepository extends Repository<User, Long> { … }
@Document
class User { … }
PersonRepository
references Person
, which is annotated with the JPA @Entity
annotation, so this repository clearly belongs to Spring Data JPA. UserRepository
references User
, which is annotated with Spring Data MongoDB’s @Document
annotation.
The following bad example shows a repository that uses domain classes with mixed annotations:
interface JpaPersonRepository extends Repository<Person, Long> { … }
interface MongoDBPersonRepository extends Repository<Person, Long> { … }
@Entity
@Document
class Person { … }
This example shows a domain class using both JPA and Spring Data MongoDB annotations.
It defines two repositories, JpaPersonRepository
and MongoDBPersonRepository
.
One is intended for JPA and the other for MongoDB usage.
Spring Data is no longer able to tell the repositories apart, which leads to undefined behavior.
Repository type details and distinguishing domain class annotations are used for strict repository configuration to identify repository candidates for a particular Spring Data module. Using multiple persistence technology-specific annotations on the same domain type is possible and enables reuse of domain types across multiple persistence technologies. However, Spring Data can then no longer determine a unique module with which to bind the repository.
The last way to distinguish repositories is by scoping repository base packages. Base packages define the starting points for scanning for repository interface definitions, which implies having repository definitions located in the appropriate packages. By default, annotation-driven configuration uses the package of the configuration class. The base package in XML-based configuration is mandatory.
The following example shows annotation-driven configuration of base packages:
@EnableJpaRepositories(basePackages = "com.acme.repositories.jpa")
@EnableMongoRepositories(basePackages = "com.acme.repositories.mongo")
class Configuration { … }
11.4. Defining Query Methods
The repository proxy has two ways to derive a store-specific query from the method name:
-
By deriving the query from the method name directly.
-
By using a manually defined query.
Available options depend on the actual store. However, there must be a strategy that decides what actual query is created. The next section describes the available options.
11.4.1. Query Lookup Strategies
The following strategies are available for the repository infrastructure to resolve the query.
With XML configuration, you can configure the strategy at the namespace through the query-lookup-strategy
attribute.
For Java configuration, you can use the queryLookupStrategy
attribute of the Enable${store}Repositories
annotation.
Some strategies may not be supported for particular datastores.
-
CREATE
attempts to construct a store-specific query from the query method name. The general approach is to remove a given set of well known prefixes from the method name and parse the rest of the method. You can read more about query construction in “Query Creation”. -
USE_DECLARED_QUERY
tries to find a declared query and throws an exception if it cannot find one. The query can be defined by an annotation somewhere or declared by other means. See the documentation of the specific store to find available options for that store. If the repository infrastructure does not find a declared query for the method at bootstrap time, it fails. -
CREATE_IF_NOT_FOUND
(the default) combinesCREATE
andUSE_DECLARED_QUERY
. It looks up a declared query first, and, if no declared query is found, it creates a custom method name-based query. This is the default lookup strategy and, thus, is used if you do not configure anything explicitly. It allows quick query definition by method names but also custom-tuning of these queries by introducing declared queries as needed.
11.4.2. Query Creation
The query builder mechanism built into the Spring Data repository infrastructure is useful for building constraining queries over entities of the repository.
The following example shows how to create a number of queries:
interface PersonRepository extends Repository<Person, Long> {
List<Person> findByEmailAddressAndLastname(EmailAddress emailAddress, String lastname);
// Enables the distinct flag for the query
List<Person> findDistinctPeopleByLastnameOrFirstname(String lastname, String firstname);
List<Person> findPeopleDistinctByLastnameOrFirstname(String lastname, String firstname);
// Enabling ignoring case for an individual property
List<Person> findByLastnameIgnoreCase(String lastname);
// Enabling ignoring case for all suitable properties
List<Person> findByLastnameAndFirstnameAllIgnoreCase(String lastname, String firstname);
// Enabling static ORDER BY for a query
List<Person> findByLastnameOrderByFirstnameAsc(String lastname);
List<Person> findByLastnameOrderByFirstnameDesc(String lastname);
}
Parsing query method names is divided into subject and predicate.
The first part (find…By
, exists…By
) defines the subject of the query, the second part forms the predicate.
The introducing clause (subject) can contain further expressions.
Any text between find
(or other introducing keywords) and By
is considered to be descriptive unless using one of the result-limiting keywords such as a Distinct
to set a distinct flag on the query to be created or Top
/First
to limit query results.
The appendix contains the full list of query method subject keywords and query method predicate keywords including sorting and letter-casing modifiers.
However, the first By
acts as a delimiter to indicate the start of the actual criteria predicate.
At a very basic level, you can define conditions on entity properties and concatenate them with And
and Or
.
The actual result of parsing the method depends on the persistence store for which you create the query. However, there are some general things to notice:
-
The expressions are usually property traversals combined with operators that can be concatenated. You can combine property expressions with
AND
andOR
. You also get support for operators such asBetween
,LessThan
,GreaterThan
, andLike
for the property expressions. The supported operators can vary by datastore, so consult the appropriate part of your reference documentation. -
The method parser supports setting an
IgnoreCase
flag for individual properties (for example,findByLastnameIgnoreCase(…)
) or for all properties of a type that supports ignoring case (usuallyString
instances — for example,findByLastnameAndFirstnameAllIgnoreCase(…)
). Whether ignoring cases is supported may vary by store, so consult the relevant sections in the reference documentation for the store-specific query method. -
You can apply static ordering by appending an
OrderBy
clause to the query method that references a property and by providing a sorting direction (Asc
orDesc
). To create a query method that supports dynamic sorting, see “Special parameter handling”.
11.4.3. Property Expressions
Property expressions can refer only to a direct property of the managed entity, as shown in the preceding example. At query creation time, you already make sure that the parsed property is a property of the managed domain class. However, you can also define constraints by traversing nested properties. Consider the following method signature:
List<Person> findByAddressZipCode(ZipCode zipCode);
Assume a Person
has an Address
with a ZipCode
.
In that case, the method creates the x.address.zipCode
property traversal.
The resolution algorithm starts by interpreting the entire part (AddressZipCode
) as the property and checks the domain class for a property with that name (uncapitalized).
If the algorithm succeeds, it uses that property.
If not, the algorithm splits up the source at the camel-case parts from the right side into a head and a tail and tries to find the corresponding property — in our example, AddressZip
and Code
.
If the algorithm finds a property with that head, it takes the tail and continues building the tree down from there, splitting the tail up in the way just described.
If the first split does not match, the algorithm moves the split point to the left (Address
, ZipCode
) and continues.
Although this should work for most cases, it is possible for the algorithm to select the wrong property.
Suppose the Person
class has an addressZip
property as well.
The algorithm would match in the first split round already, choose the wrong property, and fail (as the type of addressZip
probably has no code
property).
To resolve this ambiguity you can use _
inside your method name to manually define traversal points.
So our method name would be as follows:
List<Person> findByAddress_ZipCode(ZipCode zipCode);
Because we treat the underscore character as a reserved character, we strongly advise following standard Java naming conventions (that is, not using underscores in property names but using camel case instead).
11.4.4. Special parameter handling
To handle parameters in your query, define method parameters as already seen in the preceding examples.
Besides that, the infrastructure recognizes certain specific types like Pageable
and Sort
, to apply pagination and sorting to your queries dynamically.
The following example demonstrates these features:
Pageable
, Slice
, and Sort
in query methodsPage<User> findByLastname(String lastname, Pageable pageable);
Slice<User> findByLastname(String lastname, Pageable pageable);
List<User> findByLastname(String lastname, Sort sort);
List<User> findByLastname(String lastname, Pageable pageable);
APIs taking Sort and Pageable expect non-null values to be handed into methods.
If you do not want to apply any sorting or pagination, use Sort.unsorted() and Pageable.unpaged() .
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The first method lets you pass an org.springframework.data.domain.Pageable
instance to the query method to dynamically add paging to your statically defined query.
A Page
knows about the total number of elements and pages available.
It does so by the infrastructure triggering a count query to calculate the overall number.
As this might be expensive (depending on the store used), you can instead return a Slice
.
A Slice
knows only about whether a next Slice
is available, which might be sufficient when walking through a larger result set.
Sorting options are handled through the Pageable
instance, too.
If you need only sorting, add an org.springframework.data.domain.Sort
parameter to your method.
As you can see, returning a List
is also possible.
In this case, the additional metadata required to build the actual Page
instance is not created (which, in turn, means that the additional count query that would have been necessary is not issued).
Rather, it restricts the query to look up only the given range of entities.
To find out how many pages you get for an entire query, you have to trigger an additional count query. By default, this query is derived from the query you actually trigger. |
Paging and Sorting
You can define simple sorting expressions by using property names. You can concatenate expressions to collect multiple criteria into one expression.
Sort sort = Sort.by("firstname").ascending()
.and(Sort.by("lastname").descending());
For a more type-safe way to define sort expressions, start with the type for which to define the sort expression and use method references to define the properties on which to sort.
TypedSort<Person> person = Sort.sort(Person.class);
Sort sort = person.by(Person::getFirstname).ascending()
.and(person.by(Person::getLastname).descending());
TypedSort.by(…) makes use of runtime proxies by (typically) using CGlib, which may interfere with native image compilation when using tools such as Graal VM Native.
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If your store implementation supports Querydsl, you can also use the generated metamodel types to define sort expressions:
QSort sort = QSort.by(QPerson.firstname.asc())
.and(QSort.by(QPerson.lastname.desc()));
11.4.5. Limiting Query Results
You can limit the results of query methods by using the first
or top
keywords, which you can use interchangeably.
You can append an optional numeric value to top
or first
to specify the maximum result size to be returned.
If the number is left out, a result size of 1 is assumed.
The following example shows how to limit the query size:
Top
and First
User findFirstByOrderByLastnameAsc();
User findTopByOrderByAgeDesc();
Page<User> queryFirst10ByLastname(String lastname, Pageable pageable);
Slice<User> findTop3ByLastname(String lastname, Pageable pageable);
List<User> findFirst10ByLastname(String lastname, Sort sort);
List<User> findTop10ByLastname(String lastname, Pageable pageable);
The limiting expressions also support the Distinct
keyword for datastores that support distinct queries.
Also, for the queries that limit the result set to one instance, wrapping the result into with the Optional
keyword is supported.
If pagination or slicing is applied to a limiting query pagination (and the calculation of the number of available pages), it is applied within the limited result.
Limiting the results in combination with dynamic sorting by using a Sort parameter lets you express query methods for the 'K' smallest as well as for the 'K' biggest elements.
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11.4.6. Repository Methods Returning Collections or Iterables
Query methods that return multiple results can use standard Java Iterable
, List
, and Set
.
Beyond that, we support returning Spring Data’s Streamable
, a custom extension of Iterable
, as well as collection types provided by Vavr.
Refer to the appendix explaining all possible query method return types.
Using Streamable as Query Method Return Type
You can use Streamable
as alternative to Iterable
or any collection type.
It provides convenience methods to access a non-parallel Stream
(missing from Iterable
) and the ability to directly ….filter(…)
and ….map(…)
over the elements and concatenate the Streamable
to others:
interface PersonRepository extends Repository<Person, Long> {
Streamable<Person> findByFirstnameContaining(String firstname);
Streamable<Person> findByLastnameContaining(String lastname);
}
Streamable<Person> result = repository.findByFirstnameContaining("av")
.and(repository.findByLastnameContaining("ea"));
Returning Custom Streamable Wrapper Types
Providing dedicated wrapper types for collections is a commonly used pattern to provide an API for a query result that returns multiple elements. Usually, these types are used by invoking a repository method returning a collection-like type and creating an instance of the wrapper type manually. You can avoid that additional step as Spring Data lets you use these wrapper types as query method return types if they meet the following criteria:
-
The type implements
Streamable
. -
The type exposes either a constructor or a static factory method named
of(…)
orvalueOf(…)
that takesStreamable
as an argument.
The following listing shows an example:
class Product { (1)
MonetaryAmount getPrice() { … }
}
@RequiredArgsConstructor(staticName = "of")
class Products implements Streamable<Product> { (2)
private final Streamable<Product> streamable;
public MonetaryAmount getTotal() { (3)
return streamable.stream()
.map(Priced::getPrice)
.reduce(Money.of(0), MonetaryAmount::add);
}
@Override
public Iterator<Product> iterator() { (4)
return streamable.iterator();
}
}
interface ProductRepository implements Repository<Product, Long> {
Products findAllByDescriptionContaining(String text); (5)
}
1 | A Product entity that exposes API to access the product’s price. |
2 | A wrapper type for a Streamable<Product> that can be constructed by using Products.of(…) (factory method created with the Lombok annotation).
A standard constructor taking the Streamable<Product> will do as well. |
3 | The wrapper type exposes an additional API, calculating new values on the Streamable<Product> . |
4 | Implement the Streamable interface and delegate to the actual result. |
5 | That wrapper type Products can be used directly as a query method return type.
You do not need to return Streamable<Product> and manually wrap it after the query in the repository client. |
Support for Vavr Collections
Vavr is a library that embraces functional programming concepts in Java. It ships with a custom set of collection types that you can use as query method return types, as the following table shows:
Vavr collection type | Used Vavr implementation type | Valid Java source types |
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You can use the types in the first column (or subtypes thereof) as query method return types and get the types in the second column used as implementation type, depending on the Java type of the actual query result (third column).
Alternatively, you can declare Traversable
(the Vavr Iterable
equivalent), and we then derive the implementation class from the actual return value.
That is, a java.util.List
is turned into a Vavr List
or Seq
, a java.util.Set
becomes a Vavr LinkedHashSet
Set
, and so on.
11.4.7. Null Handling of Repository Methods
As of Spring Data 2.0, repository CRUD methods that return an individual aggregate instance use Java 8’s Optional
to indicate the potential absence of a value.
Besides that, Spring Data supports returning the following wrapper types on query methods:
-
com.google.common.base.Optional
-
scala.Option
-
io.vavr.control.Option
Alternatively, query methods can choose not to use a wrapper type at all.
The absence of a query result is then indicated by returning null
.
Repository methods returning collections, collection alternatives, wrappers, and streams are guaranteed never to return null
but rather the corresponding empty representation.
See “Repository query return types” for details.
Nullability Annotations
You can express nullability constraints for repository methods by using Spring Framework’s nullability annotations.
They provide a tooling-friendly approach and opt-in null
checks during runtime, as follows:
-
@NonNullApi
: Used on the package level to declare that the default behavior for parameters and return values is, respectively, neither to accept nor to producenull
values. -
@NonNull
: Used on a parameter or return value that must not benull
(not needed on a parameter and return value where@NonNullApi
applies). -
@Nullable
: Used on a parameter or return value that can benull
.
Spring annotations are meta-annotated with JSR 305 annotations (a dormant but widely used JSR).
JSR 305 meta-annotations let tooling vendors (such as IDEA, Eclipse, and Kotlin) provide null-safety support in a generic way, without having to hard-code support for Spring annotations.
To enable runtime checking of nullability constraints for query methods, you need to activate non-nullability on the package level by using Spring’s @NonNullApi
in package-info.java
, as shown in the following example:
package-info.java
@org.springframework.lang.NonNullApi
package com.acme;
Once non-null defaulting is in place, repository query method invocations get validated at runtime for nullability constraints.
If a query result violates the defined constraint, an exception is thrown.
This happens when the method would return null
but is declared as non-nullable (the default with the annotation defined on the package in which the repository resides).
If you want to opt-in to nullable results again, selectively use @Nullable
on individual methods.
Using the result wrapper types mentioned at the start of this section continues to work as expected: an empty result is translated into the value that represents absence.
The following example shows a number of the techniques just described:
package com.acme; (1)
import org.springframework.lang.Nullable;
interface UserRepository extends Repository<User, Long> {
User getByEmailAddress(EmailAddress emailAddress); (2)
@Nullable
User findByEmailAddress(@Nullable EmailAddress emailAdress); (3)
Optional<User> findOptionalByEmailAddress(EmailAddress emailAddress); (4)
}
1 | The repository resides in a package (or sub-package) for which we have defined non-null behavior. |
2 | Throws an EmptyResultDataAccessException when the query does not produce a result.
Throws an IllegalArgumentException when the emailAddress handed to the method is null . |
3 | Returns null when the query does not produce a result.
Also accepts null as the value for emailAddress . |
4 | Returns Optional.empty() when the query does not produce a result.
Throws an IllegalArgumentException when the emailAddress handed to the method is null . |
Nullability in Kotlin-based Repositories
Kotlin has the definition of nullability constraints baked into the language.
Kotlin code compiles to bytecode, which does not express nullability constraints through method signatures but rather through compiled-in metadata.
Make sure to include the kotlin-reflect
JAR in your project to enable introspection of Kotlin’s nullability constraints.
Spring Data repositories use the language mechanism to define those constraints to apply the same runtime checks, as follows:
interface UserRepository : Repository<User, String> {
fun findByUsername(username: String): User (1)
fun findByFirstname(firstname: String?): User? (2)
}
1 | The method defines both the parameter and the result as non-nullable (the Kotlin default).
The Kotlin compiler rejects method invocations that pass null to the method.
If the query yields an empty result, an EmptyResultDataAccessException is thrown. |
2 | This method accepts null for the firstname parameter and returns null if the query does not produce a result. |
11.4.8. Streaming Query Results
You can process the results of query methods incrementally by using a Java 8 Stream<T>
as the return type.
Instead of wrapping the query results in a Stream
, data store-specific methods are used to perform the streaming, as shown in the following example:
Stream<T>
@Query("select u from User u")
Stream<User> findAllByCustomQueryAndStream();
Stream<User> readAllByFirstnameNotNull();
@Query("select u from User u")
Stream<User> streamAllPaged(Pageable pageable);
A Stream potentially wraps underlying data store-specific resources and must, therefore, be closed after usage.
You can either manually close the Stream by using the close() method or by using a Java 7 try-with-resources block, as shown in the following example:
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Stream<T>
result in a try-with-resources
blocktry (Stream<User> stream = repository.findAllByCustomQueryAndStream()) {
stream.forEach(…);
}
Not all Spring Data modules currently support Stream<T> as a return type.
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11.4.9. Asynchronous Query Results
You can run repository queries asynchronously by using Spring’s asynchronous method running capability.
This means the method returns immediately upon invocation while the actual query occurs in a task that has been submitted to a Spring TaskExecutor
.
Asynchronous queries differ from reactive queries and should not be mixed.
See the store-specific documentation for more details on reactive support.
The following example shows a number of asynchronous queries:
@Async
Future<User> findByFirstname(String firstname); (1)
@Async
CompletableFuture<User> findOneByFirstname(String firstname); (2)
@Async
ListenableFuture<User> findOneByLastname(String lastname); (3)
1 | Use java.util.concurrent.Future as the return type. |
2 | Use a Java 8 java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture as the return type. |
3 | Use a org.springframework.util.concurrent.ListenableFuture as the return type. |
11.5. Creating Repository Instances
This section covers how to create instances and bean definitions for the defined repository interfaces. One way to do so is by using the Spring namespace that is shipped with each Spring Data module that supports the repository mechanism, although we generally recommend using Java configuration.
11.5.1. XML Configuration
Each Spring Data module includes a repositories
element that lets you define a base package that Spring scans for you, as shown in the following example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans:beans xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa
https://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa/spring-jpa.xsd">
<repositories base-package="com.acme.repositories" />
</beans:beans>
In the preceding example, Spring is instructed to scan com.acme.repositories
and all its sub-packages for interfaces extending Repository
or one of its sub-interfaces.
For each interface found, the infrastructure registers the persistence technology-specific FactoryBean
to create the appropriate proxies that handle invocations of the query methods.
Each bean is registered under a bean name that is derived from the interface name, so an interface of UserRepository
would be registered under userRepository
.
Bean names for nested repository interfaces are prefixed with their enclosing type name.
The base-package
attribute allows wildcards so that you can define a pattern of scanned packages.
Using Filters
By default, the infrastructure picks up every interface that extends the persistence technology-specific Repository
sub-interface located under the configured base package and creates a bean instance for it.
However, you might want more fine-grained control over which interfaces have bean instances created for them.
To do so, use <include-filter />
and <exclude-filter />
elements inside the <repositories />
element.
The semantics are exactly equivalent to the elements in Spring’s context namespace.
For details, see the Spring reference documentation for these elements.
For example, to exclude certain interfaces from instantiation as repository beans, you could use the following configuration:
<repositories base-package="com.acme.repositories">
<context:exclude-filter type="regex" expression=".*SomeRepository" />
</repositories>
The preceding example excludes all interfaces ending in SomeRepository
from being instantiated.
11.5.2. Java Configuration
You can also trigger the repository infrastructure by using a store-specific @Enable${store}Repositories
annotation on a Java configuration class. For an introduction to Java-based configuration of the Spring container, see JavaConfig in the Spring reference documentation.
A sample configuration to enable Spring Data repositories resembles the following:
@Configuration
@EnableJpaRepositories("com.acme.repositories")
class ApplicationConfiguration {
@Bean
EntityManagerFactory entityManagerFactory() {
// …
}
}
The preceding example uses the JPA-specific annotation, which you would change according to the store module you actually use. The same applies to the definition of the EntityManagerFactory bean. See the sections covering the store-specific configuration.
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11.5.3. Standalone Usage
You can also use the repository infrastructure outside of a Spring container — for example, in CDI environments. You still need some Spring libraries in your classpath, but, generally, you can set up repositories programmatically as well. The Spring Data modules that provide repository support ship with a persistence technology-specific RepositoryFactory
that you can use, as follows:
RepositoryFactorySupport factory = … // Instantiate factory here
UserRepository repository = factory.getRepository(UserRepository.class);
11.6. Custom Implementations for Spring Data Repositories
Spring Data provides various options to create query methods with little coding. But when those options don’t fit your needs you can also provide your own custom implementation for repository methods. This section describes how to do that.
11.6.1. Customizing Individual Repositories
To enrich a repository with custom functionality, you must first define a fragment interface and an implementation for the custom functionality, as follows:
interface CustomizedUserRepository {
void someCustomMethod(User user);
}
class CustomizedUserRepositoryImpl implements CustomizedUserRepository {
public void someCustomMethod(User user) {
// Your custom implementation
}
}
The most important part of the class name that corresponds to the fragment interface is the Impl postfix.
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The implementation itself does not depend on Spring Data and can be a regular Spring bean.Consequently, you can use standard dependency injection behavior to inject references to other beans (such as a JdbcTemplate
), take part in aspects, and so on.
Then you can let your repository interface extend the fragment interface, as follows:
interface UserRepository extends CrudRepository<User, Long>, CustomizedUserRepository {
// Declare query methods here
}
Extending the fragment interface with your repository interface combines the CRUD and custom functionality and makes it available to clients.
Spring Data repositories are implemented by using fragments that form a repository composition. Fragments are the base repository, functional aspects (such as QueryDsl), and custom interfaces along with their implementations. Each time you add an interface to your repository interface, you enhance the composition by adding a fragment. The base repository and repository aspect implementations are provided by each Spring Data module.
The following example shows custom interfaces and their implementations:
interface HumanRepository {
void someHumanMethod(User user);
}
class HumanRepositoryImpl implements HumanRepository {
public void someHumanMethod(User user) {
// Your custom implementation
}
}
interface ContactRepository {
void someContactMethod(User user);
User anotherContactMethod(User user);
}
class ContactRepositoryImpl implements ContactRepository {
public void someContactMethod(User user) {
// Your custom implementation
}
public User anotherContactMethod(User user) {
// Your custom implementation
}
}
The following example shows the interface for a custom repository that extends CrudRepository
:
interface UserRepository extends CrudRepository<User, Long>, HumanRepository, ContactRepository {
// Declare query methods here
}
Repositories may be composed of multiple custom implementations that are imported in the order of their declaration. Custom implementations have a higher priority than the base implementation and repository aspects. This ordering lets you override base repository and aspect methods and resolves ambiguity if two fragments contribute the same method signature. Repository fragments are not limited to use in a single repository interface. Multiple repositories may use a fragment interface, letting you reuse customizations across different repositories.
The following example shows a repository fragment and its implementation:
save(…)
interface CustomizedSave<T> {
<S extends T> S save(S entity);
}
class CustomizedSaveImpl<T> implements CustomizedSave<T> {
public <S extends T> S save(S entity) {
// Your custom implementation
}
}
The following example shows a repository that uses the preceding repository fragment:
interface UserRepository extends CrudRepository<User, Long>, CustomizedSave<User> {
}
interface PersonRepository extends CrudRepository<Person, Long>, CustomizedSave<Person> {
}
Configuration
If you use namespace configuration, the repository infrastructure tries to autodetect custom implementation fragments by scanning for classes below the package in which it found a repository.
These classes need to follow the naming convention of appending the namespace element’s repository-impl-postfix
attribute to the fragment interface name.
This postfix defaults to Impl
.
The following example shows a repository that uses the default postfix and a repository that sets a custom value for the postfix:
<repositories base-package="com.acme.repository" />
<repositories base-package="com.acme.repository" repository-impl-postfix="MyPostfix" />
The first configuration in the preceding example tries to look up a class called com.acme.repository.CustomizedUserRepositoryImpl
to act as a custom repository implementation.
The second example tries to look up com.acme.repository.CustomizedUserRepositoryMyPostfix
.
Resolution of Ambiguity
If multiple implementations with matching class names are found in different packages, Spring Data uses the bean names to identify which one to use.
Given the following two custom implementations for the CustomizedUserRepository
shown earlier, the first implementation is used.
Its bean name is customizedUserRepositoryImpl
, which matches that of the fragment interface (CustomizedUserRepository
) plus the postfix Impl
.
package com.acme.impl.one;
class CustomizedUserRepositoryImpl implements CustomizedUserRepository {
// Your custom implementation
}
package com.acme.impl.two;
@Component("specialCustomImpl")
class CustomizedUserRepositoryImpl implements CustomizedUserRepository {
// Your custom implementation
}
If you annotate the UserRepository
interface with @Component("specialCustom")
, the bean name plus Impl
then matches the one defined for the repository implementation in com.acme.impl.two
, and it is used instead of the first one.
Manual Wiring
If your custom implementation uses annotation-based configuration and autowiring only, the preceding approach shown works well, because it is treated as any other Spring bean. If your implementation fragment bean needs special wiring, you can declare the bean and name it according to the conventions described in the preceding section. The infrastructure then refers to the manually defined bean definition by name instead of creating one itself. The following example shows how to manually wire a custom implementation:
<repositories base-package="com.acme.repository" />
<beans:bean id="userRepositoryImpl" class="…">
<!-- further configuration -->
</beans:bean>
11.6.2. Customize the Base Repository
The approach described in the preceding section requires customization of each repository interfaces when you want to customize the base repository behavior so that all repositories are affected. To instead change behavior for all repositories, you can create an implementation that extends the persistence technology-specific repository base class. This class then acts as a custom base class for the repository proxies, as shown in the following example:
class MyRepositoryImpl<T, ID>
extends SimpleJpaRepository<T, ID> {
private final EntityManager entityManager;
MyRepositoryImpl(JpaEntityInformation entityInformation,
EntityManager entityManager) {
super(entityInformation, entityManager);
// Keep the EntityManager around to used from the newly introduced methods.
this.entityManager = entityManager;
}
@Transactional
public <S extends T> S save(S entity) {
// implementation goes here
}
}
The class needs to have a constructor of the super class which the store-specific repository factory implementation uses.
If the repository base class has multiple constructors, override the one taking an EntityInformation plus a store specific infrastructure object (such as an EntityManager or a template class).
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The final step is to make the Spring Data infrastructure aware of the customized repository base class.
In Java configuration, you can do so by using the repositoryBaseClass
attribute of the @Enable${store}Repositories
annotation, as shown in the following example:
@Configuration
@EnableJpaRepositories(repositoryBaseClass = MyRepositoryImpl.class)
class ApplicationConfiguration { … }
A corresponding attribute is available in the XML namespace, as shown in the following example:
<repositories base-package="com.acme.repository"
base-class="….MyRepositoryImpl" />
11.7. Publishing Events from Aggregate Roots
Entities managed by repositories are aggregate roots.
In a Domain-Driven Design application, these aggregate roots usually publish domain events.
Spring Data provides an annotation called @DomainEvents
that you can use on a method of your aggregate root to make that publication as easy as possible, as shown in the following example:
class AnAggregateRoot {
@DomainEvents (1)
Collection<Object> domainEvents() {
// … return events you want to get published here
}
@AfterDomainEventPublication (2)
void callbackMethod() {
// … potentially clean up domain events list
}
}
1 | The method that uses @DomainEvents can return either a single event instance or a collection of events.
It must not take any arguments. |
2 | After all events have been published, we have a method annotated with @AfterDomainEventPublication .
You can use it to potentially clean the list of events to be published (among other uses). |
The methods are called every time one of a Spring Data repository’s save(…)
, saveAll(…)
, delete(…)
or deleteAll(…)
methods are called.
11.8. Spring Data Extensions
This section documents a set of Spring Data extensions that enable Spring Data usage in a variety of contexts. Currently, most of the integration is targeted towards Spring MVC.
11.8.1. Querydsl Extension
Querydsl is a framework that enables the construction of statically typed SQL-like queries through its fluent API.
Several Spring Data modules offer integration with Querydsl through QuerydslPredicateExecutor
, as the following example shows:
public interface QuerydslPredicateExecutor<T> {
Optional<T> findById(Predicate predicate); (1)
Iterable<T> findAll(Predicate predicate); (2)
long count(Predicate predicate); (3)
boolean exists(Predicate predicate); (4)
// … more functionality omitted.
}
1 | Finds and returns a single entity matching the Predicate . |
2 | Finds and returns all entities matching the Predicate . |
3 | Returns the number of entities matching the Predicate . |
4 | Returns whether an entity that matches the Predicate exists. |
To use the Querydsl support, extend QuerydslPredicateExecutor
on your repository interface, as the following example shows:
interface UserRepository extends CrudRepository<User, Long>, QuerydslPredicateExecutor<User> {
}
The preceding example lets you write type-safe queries by using Querydsl Predicate
instances, as the following example shows:
Predicate predicate = user.firstname.equalsIgnoreCase("dave")
.and(user.lastname.startsWithIgnoreCase("mathews"));
userRepository.findAll(predicate);
11.8.2. Web support
Spring Data modules that support the repository programming model ship with a variety of web support.
The web related components require Spring MVC JARs to be on the classpath.
Some of them even provide integration with Spring HATEOAS.
In general, the integration support is enabled by using the @EnableSpringDataWebSupport
annotation in your JavaConfig configuration class, as the following example shows:
@Configuration
@EnableWebMvc
@EnableSpringDataWebSupport
class WebConfiguration {}
The @EnableSpringDataWebSupport
annotation registers a few components.
We discuss those later in this section.
It also detects Spring HATEOAS on the classpath and registers integration components (if present) for it as well.
Alternatively, if you use XML configuration, register either SpringDataWebConfiguration
or HateoasAwareSpringDataWebConfiguration
as Spring beans, as the following example shows (for SpringDataWebConfiguration
):
<bean class="org.springframework.data.web.config.SpringDataWebConfiguration" />
<!-- If you use Spring HATEOAS, register this one *instead* of the former -->
<bean class="org.springframework.data.web.config.HateoasAwareSpringDataWebConfiguration" />
Basic Web Support
The configuration shown in the previous section registers a few basic components:
-
A Using the
DomainClassConverter
Class to let Spring MVC resolve instances of repository-managed domain classes from request parameters or path variables. -
HandlerMethodArgumentResolver
implementations to let Spring MVC resolvePageable
andSort
instances from request parameters. -
Jackson Modules to de-/serialize types like
Point
andDistance
, or store specific ones, depending on the Spring Data Module used.
Using the DomainClassConverter
Class
The DomainClassConverter
class lets you use domain types in your Spring MVC controller method signatures directly so that you need not manually lookup the instances through the repository, as the following example shows:
@Controller
@RequestMapping("/users")
class UserController {
@RequestMapping("/{id}")
String showUserForm(@PathVariable("id") User user, Model model) {
model.addAttribute("user", user);
return "userForm";
}
}
The method receives a User
instance directly, and no further lookup is necessary.
The instance can be resolved by letting Spring MVC convert the path variable into the id
type of the domain class first and eventually access the instance through calling findById(…)
on the repository instance registered for the domain type.
Currently, the repository has to implement CrudRepository to be eligible to be discovered for conversion.
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HandlerMethodArgumentResolvers for Pageable and Sort
The configuration snippet shown in the previous section also registers a PageableHandlerMethodArgumentResolver
as well as an instance of SortHandlerMethodArgumentResolver
.
The registration enables Pageable
and Sort
as valid controller method arguments, as the following example shows:
@Controller
@RequestMapping("/users")
class UserController {
private final UserRepository repository;
UserController(UserRepository repository) {
this.repository = repository;
}
@RequestMapping
String showUsers(Model model, Pageable pageable) {
model.addAttribute("users", repository.findAll(pageable));
return "users";
}
}
The preceding method signature causes Spring MVC try to derive a Pageable
instance from the request parameters by using the following default configuration:
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Page you want to retrieve. 0-indexed and defaults to 0. |
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Size of the page you want to retrieve. Defaults to 20. |
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Properties that should be sorted by in the format |
To customize this behavior, register a bean that implements the PageableHandlerMethodArgumentResolverCustomizer
interface or the SortHandlerMethodArgumentResolverCustomizer
interface, respectively.
Its customize()
method gets called, letting you change settings, as the following example shows:
@Bean SortHandlerMethodArgumentResolverCustomizer sortCustomizer() {
return s -> s.setPropertyDelimiter("<-->");
}
If setting the properties of an existing MethodArgumentResolver
is not sufficient for your purpose, extend either SpringDataWebConfiguration
or the HATEOAS-enabled equivalent, override the pageableResolver()
or sortResolver()
methods, and import your customized configuration file instead of using the @Enable
annotation.
If you need multiple Pageable
or Sort
instances to be resolved from the request (for multiple tables, for example), you can use Spring’s @Qualifier
annotation to distinguish one from another.
The request parameters then have to be prefixed with ${qualifier}_
.
The following example shows the resulting method signature:
String showUsers(Model model,
@Qualifier("thing1") Pageable first,
@Qualifier("thing2") Pageable second) { … }
You have to populate thing1_page
, thing2_page
, and so on.
The default Pageable
passed into the method is equivalent to a PageRequest.of(0, 20)
, but you can customize it by using the @PageableDefault
annotation on the Pageable
parameter.
Hypermedia Support for Pageables
Spring HATEOAS ships with a representation model class (PagedResources
) that allows enriching the content of a Page
instance with the necessary Page
metadata as well as links to let the clients easily navigate the pages.
The conversion of a Page
to a PagedResources
is done by an implementation of the Spring HATEOAS ResourceAssembler
interface, called the PagedResourcesAssembler
.
The following example shows how to use a PagedResourcesAssembler
as a controller method argument:
@Controller
class PersonController {
@Autowired PersonRepository repository;
@RequestMapping(value = "/persons", method = RequestMethod.GET)
HttpEntity<PagedResources<Person>> persons(Pageable pageable,
PagedResourcesAssembler assembler) {
Page<Person> persons = repository.findAll(pageable);
return new ResponseEntity<>(assembler.toResources(persons), HttpStatus.OK);
}
}
Enabling the configuration, as shown in the preceding example, lets the PagedResourcesAssembler
be used as a controller method argument.
Calling toResources(…)
on it has the following effects:
-
The content of the
Page
becomes the content of thePagedResources
instance. -
The
PagedResources
object gets aPageMetadata
instance attached, and it is populated with information from thePage
and the underlyingPageRequest
. -
The
PagedResources
may getprev
andnext
links attached, depending on the page’s state. The links point to the URI to which the method maps. The pagination parameters added to the method match the setup of thePageableHandlerMethodArgumentResolver
to make sure the links can be resolved later.
Assume we have 30 Person
instances in the database.
You can now trigger a request (GET http://localhost:8080/persons
) and see output similar to the following:
{ "links" : [ { "rel" : "next",
"href" : "http://localhost:8080/persons?page=1&size=20" }
],
"content" : [
… // 20 Person instances rendered here
],
"pageMetadata" : {
"size" : 20,
"totalElements" : 30,
"totalPages" : 2,
"number" : 0
}
}
The assembler produced the correct URI and also picked up the default configuration to resolve the parameters into a Pageable
for an upcoming request.
This means that, if you change that configuration, the links automatically adhere to the change.
By default, the assembler points to the controller method it was invoked in, but you can customize that by passing a custom Link
to be used as base to build the pagination links, which overloads the PagedResourcesAssembler.toResource(…)
method.
Spring Data Jackson Modules
The core module, and some of the store specific ones, ship with a set of Jackson Modules for types, like org.springframework.data.geo.Distance
and org.springframework.data.geo.Point
, used by the Spring Data domain.
Those Modules are imported once web support is enabled and com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper
is available.
During initialization SpringDataJacksonModules
, like the SpringDataJacksonConfiguration
, get picked up by the infrastructure, so that the declared com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.Module
s are made available to the Jackson ObjectMapper
.
Data binding mixins for the following domain types are registered by the common infrastructure.
org.springframework.data.geo.Distance org.springframework.data.geo.Point org.springframework.data.geo.Box org.springframework.data.geo.Circle org.springframework.data.geo.Polygon
The individual module may provide additional |
Web Databinding Support
You can use Spring Data projections (described in Projections) to bind incoming request payloads by using either JSONPath expressions (requires Jayway JsonPath or XPath expressions (requires XmlBeam), as the following example shows:
@ProjectedPayload
public interface UserPayload {
@XBRead("//firstname")
@JsonPath("$..firstname")
String getFirstname();
@XBRead("/lastname")
@JsonPath({ "$.lastname", "$.user.lastname" })
String getLastname();
}
You can use the type shown in the preceding example as a Spring MVC handler method argument or by using ParameterizedTypeReference
on one of methods of the RestTemplate
.
The preceding method declarations would try to find firstname
anywhere in the given document.
The lastname
XML lookup is performed on the top-level of the incoming document.
The JSON variant of that tries a top-level lastname
first but also tries lastname
nested in a user
sub-document if the former does not return a value.
That way, changes in the structure of the source document can be mitigated easily without having clients calling the exposed methods (usually a drawback of class-based payload binding).
Nested projections are supported as described in Projections.
If the method returns a complex, non-interface type, a Jackson ObjectMapper
is used to map the final value.
For Spring MVC, the necessary converters are registered automatically as soon as @EnableSpringDataWebSupport
is active and the required dependencies are available on the classpath.
For usage with RestTemplate
, register a ProjectingJackson2HttpMessageConverter
(JSON) or XmlBeamHttpMessageConverter
manually.
For more information, see the web projection example in the canonical Spring Data Examples repository.
Querydsl Web Support
For those stores that have QueryDSL integration, you can derive queries from the attributes contained in a Request
query string.
Consider the following query string:
?firstname=Dave&lastname=Matthews
Given the User
object from the previous examples, you can resolve a query string to the following value by using the QuerydslPredicateArgumentResolver
, as follows:
QUser.user.firstname.eq("Dave").and(QUser.user.lastname.eq("Matthews"))
The feature is automatically enabled, along with @EnableSpringDataWebSupport , when Querydsl is found on the classpath.
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Adding a @QuerydslPredicate
to the method signature provides a ready-to-use Predicate
, which you can run by using the QuerydslPredicateExecutor
.
Type information is typically resolved from the method’s return type.
Since that information does not necessarily match the domain type, it might be a good idea to use the root attribute of QuerydslPredicate .
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The following example shows how to use @QuerydslPredicate
in a method signature:
@Controller
class UserController {
@Autowired UserRepository repository;
@RequestMapping(value = "/", method = RequestMethod.GET)
String index(Model model, @QuerydslPredicate(root = User.class) Predicate predicate, (1)
Pageable pageable, @RequestParam MultiValueMap<String, String> parameters) {
model.addAttribute("users", repository.findAll(predicate, pageable));
return "index";
}
}
1 | Resolve query string arguments to matching Predicate for User . |
The default binding is as follows:
-
Object
on simple properties aseq
. -
Object
on collection like properties ascontains
. -
Collection
on simple properties asin
.
You can customize those bindings through the bindings
attribute of @QuerydslPredicate
or by making use of Java 8 default methods
and adding the QuerydslBinderCustomizer
method to the repository interface, as follows:
interface UserRepository extends CrudRepository<User, String>,
QuerydslPredicateExecutor<User>, (1)
QuerydslBinderCustomizer<QUser> { (2)
@Override
default void customize(QuerydslBindings bindings, QUser user) {
bindings.bind(user.username).first((path, value) -> path.contains(value)) (3)
bindings.bind(String.class)
.first((StringPath path, String value) -> path.containsIgnoreCase(value)); (4)
bindings.excluding(user.password); (5)
}
}
1 | QuerydslPredicateExecutor provides access to specific finder methods for Predicate . |
2 | QuerydslBinderCustomizer defined on the repository interface is automatically picked up and shortcuts @QuerydslPredicate(bindings=…) . |
3 | Define the binding for the username property to be a simple contains binding. |
4 | Define the default binding for String properties to be a case-insensitive contains match. |
5 | Exclude the password property from Predicate resolution. |
You can register a QuerydslBinderCustomizerDefaults bean holding default Querydsl bindings before applying specific bindings from the repository or @QuerydslPredicate .
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11.8.3. Repository Populators
If you work with the Spring JDBC module, you are probably familiar with the support for populating a DataSource
with SQL scripts.
A similar abstraction is available on the repositories level, although it does not use SQL as the data definition language because it must be store-independent.
Thus, the populators support XML (through Spring’s OXM abstraction) and JSON (through Jackson) to define data with which to populate the repositories.
Assume you have a file called data.json
with the following content:
[ { "_class" : "com.acme.Person",
"firstname" : "Dave",
"lastname" : "Matthews" },
{ "_class" : "com.acme.Person",
"firstname" : "Carter",
"lastname" : "Beauford" } ]
You can populate your repositories by using the populator elements of the repository namespace provided in Spring Data Commons.
To populate the preceding data to your PersonRepository
, declare a populator similar to the following:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:repository="http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/repository"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/repository
https://www.springframework.org/schema/data/repository/spring-repository.xsd">
<repository:jackson2-populator locations="classpath:data.json" />
</beans>
The preceding declaration causes the data.json
file to be read and deserialized by a Jackson ObjectMapper
.
The type to which the JSON object is unmarshalled is determined by inspecting the _class
attribute of the JSON document.
The infrastructure eventually selects the appropriate repository to handle the object that was deserialized.
To instead use XML to define the data the repositories should be populated with, you can use the unmarshaller-populator
element.
You configure it to use one of the XML marshaller options available in Spring OXM. See the Spring reference documentation for details.
The following example shows how to unmarshall a repository populator with JAXB:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:repository="http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/repository"
xmlns:oxm="http://www.springframework.org/schema/oxm"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/repository
https://www.springframework.org/schema/data/repository/spring-repository.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/oxm
https://www.springframework.org/schema/oxm/spring-oxm.xsd">
<repository:unmarshaller-populator locations="classpath:data.json"
unmarshaller-ref="unmarshaller" />
<oxm:jaxb2-marshaller contextPath="com.acme" />
</beans>
Reference Documentation
12. Introduction
12.1. Document Structure
This part of the reference documentation explains the core functionality offered by Spring Data R2DBC.
“R2DBC support” introduces the R2DBC module feature set.
“R2DBC Repositories” introduces the repository support for R2DBC.
13. R2DBC support
R2DBC contains a wide range of features:
-
Spring configuration support with Java-based
@Configuration
classes for an R2DBC driver instance. -
R2dbcEntityTemplate
as central class for entity-bound operations that increases productivity when performing common R2DBC operations with integrated object mapping between rows and POJOs. -
Feature-rich object mapping integrated with Spring’s Conversion Service.
-
Annotation-based mapping metadata that is extensible to support other metadata formats.
-
Automatic implementation of Repository interfaces, including support for custom query methods.
For most tasks, you should use R2dbcEntityTemplate
or the repository support, which both use the rich mapping functionality.
R2dbcEntityTemplate
is the place to look for accessing functionality such as ad-hoc CRUD operations.
13.1. Getting Started
An easy way to set up a working environment is to create a Spring-based project through start.spring.io. To do so:
-
Add the following to the pom.xml files
dependencies
element:<dependencyManagement> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>io.r2dbc</groupId> <artifactId>r2dbc-bom</artifactId> <version>${r2dbc-releasetrain.version}</version> <type>pom</type> <scope>import</scope> </dependency> </dependencies> </dependencyManagement> <dependencies> <!-- other dependency elements omitted --> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId> <artifactId>spring-data-r2dbc</artifactId> <version>1.3.6</version> </dependency> <!-- a R2DBC driver --> <dependency> <groupId>io.r2dbc</groupId> <artifactId>r2dbc-h2</artifactId> <version>Arabba-SR10</version> </dependency> </dependencies>
-
Change the version of Spring in the pom.xml to be
<spring-framework.version>5.3.11</spring-framework.version>
-
Add the following location of the Spring Milestone repository for Maven to your
pom.xml
such that it is at the same level as your<dependencies/>
element:<repositories> <repository> <id>spring-milestone</id> <name>Spring Maven MILESTONE Repository</name> <url>https://repo.spring.io/libs-milestone</url> </repository> </repositories>
The repository is also browseable here.
You may also want to set the logging level to DEBUG
to see some additional information.
To do so, edit the application.properties
file to have the following content:
logging.level.org.springframework.r2dbc=DEBUG
Then you can, for example, create a Person
class to persist, as follows:
public class Person {
private final String id;
private final String name;
private final int age;
public Person(String id, String name, int age) {
this.id = id;
this.name = name;
this.age = age;
}
public String getId() {
return id;
}
public String getName() {
return name;
}
public int getAge() {
return age;
}
@Override
public String toString() {
return "Person [id=" + id + ", name=" + name + ", age=" + age + "]";
}
}
Next, you need to create a table structure in your database, as follows:
CREATE TABLE person
(id VARCHAR(255) PRIMARY KEY,
name VARCHAR(255),
age INT);
You also need a main application to run, as follows:
import io.r2dbc.spi.ConnectionFactories;
import io.r2dbc.spi.ConnectionFactory;
import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
import reactor.test.StepVerifier;
import org.springframework.data.r2dbc.core.R2dbcEntityTemplate;
public class R2dbcApp {
private static final Log log = LogFactory.getLog(R2dbcApp.class);
public static void main(String[] args) {
ConnectionFactory connectionFactory = ConnectionFactories.get("r2dbc:h2:mem:///test?options=DB_CLOSE_DELAY=-1;DB_CLOSE_ON_EXIT=FALSE");
R2dbcEntityTemplate template = new R2dbcEntityTemplate(connectionFactory);
template.getDatabaseClient().sql("CREATE TABLE person" +
"(id VARCHAR(255) PRIMARY KEY," +
"name VARCHAR(255)," +
"age INT)")
.fetch()
.rowsUpdated()
.as(StepVerifier::create)
.expectNextCount(1)
.verifyComplete();
template.insert(Person.class)
.using(new Person("joe", "Joe", 34))
.as(StepVerifier::create)
.expectNextCount(1)
.verifyComplete();
template.select(Person.class)
.first()
.doOnNext(it -> log.info(it))
.as(StepVerifier::create)
.expectNextCount(1)
.verifyComplete();
}
}
When you run the main program, the preceding examples produce output similar to the following:
2018-11-28 10:47:03,893 DEBUG amework.core.r2dbc.DefaultDatabaseClient: 310 - Executing SQL statement [CREATE TABLE person
(id VARCHAR(255) PRIMARY KEY,
name VARCHAR(255),
age INT)]
2018-11-28 10:47:04,074 DEBUG amework.core.r2dbc.DefaultDatabaseClient: 908 - Executing SQL statement [INSERT INTO person (id, name, age) VALUES($1, $2, $3)]
2018-11-28 10:47:04,092 DEBUG amework.core.r2dbc.DefaultDatabaseClient: 575 - Executing SQL statement [SELECT id, name, age FROM person]
2018-11-28 10:47:04,436 INFO org.spring.r2dbc.example.R2dbcApp: 43 - Person [id='joe', name='Joe', age=34]
Even in this simple example, there are few things to notice:
-
You can create an instance of the central helper class in Spring Data R2DBC (
R2dbcEntityTemplate
) by using a standardio.r2dbc.spi.ConnectionFactory
object. -
The mapper works against standard POJO objects without the need for any additional metadata (though you can, optionally, provide that information — see here.).
-
Mapping conventions can use field access.Notice that the
Person
class has only getters. -
If the constructor argument names match the column names of the stored row, they are used to instantiate the object.
13.2. Examples Repository
There is a GitHub repository with several examples that you can download and play around with to get a feel for how the library works.
13.3. Connecting to a Relational Database with Spring
One of the first tasks when using relational databases and Spring is to create a io.r2dbc.spi.ConnectionFactory
object by using the IoC container.Make sure to use a supported database and driver.
13.3.1. Registering a ConnectionFactory
Instance using Java-based Metadata
The following example shows an example of using Java-based bean metadata to register an instance of io.r2dbc.spi.ConnectionFactory
:
io.r2dbc.spi.ConnectionFactory
object using Java-based bean metadata@Configuration
public class ApplicationConfiguration extends AbstractR2dbcConfiguration {
@Override
@Bean
public ConnectionFactory connectionFactory() {
return …
}
}
This approach lets you use the standard io.r2dbc.spi.ConnectionFactory
instance, with the container using Spring’s AbstractR2dbcConfiguration
.As compared to registering a ConnectionFactory
instance directly, the configuration support has the added advantage of also providing the container with an ExceptionTranslator
implementation that translates R2DBC exceptions to exceptions in Spring’s portable DataAccessException
hierarchy for data access classes annotated with the @Repository
annotation.This hierarchy and the use of @Repository
is described in Spring’s DAO support features.
AbstractR2dbcConfiguration
also registers DatabaseClient
, which is required for database interaction and for Repository implementation.
13.3.2. R2DBC Drivers
Spring Data R2DBC supports drivers through R2DBC’s pluggable SPI mechanism.
You can use any driver that implements the R2DBC spec with Spring Data R2DBC.
Since Spring Data R2DBC reacts to specific features of each database, it requires a Dialect
implementation otherwise your application won’t start up.
Spring Data R2DBC ships with dialect implementations for the following drivers:
-
H2 (
io.r2dbc:r2dbc-h2
) -
MariaDB (
org.mariadb:r2dbc-mariadb
) -
Microsoft SQL Server (
io.r2dbc:r2dbc-mssql
) -
MySQL (
dev.miku:r2dbc-mysql
) -
jasync-sql MySQL (
com.github.jasync-sql:jasync-r2dbc-mysql
) -
Postgres (
io.r2dbc:r2dbc-postgresql
) -
Oracle (
com.oracle.database.r2dbc:oracle-r2dbc
)
Spring Data R2DBC reacts to database specifics by inspecting the ConnectionFactory
and selects the appropriate database dialect accordingly.
You need to configure your own R2dbcDialect
if the driver you use is not yet known to Spring Data R2DBC.
Dialects are resolved by DialectResolver from a ConnectionFactory , typically by inspecting ConnectionFactoryMetadata .
+ You can let Spring auto-discover your R2dbcDialect by registering a class that implements org.springframework.data.r2dbc.dialect.DialectResolver$R2dbcDialectProvider through META-INF/spring.factories .
DialectResolver discovers dialect provider implementations from the class path using Spring’s SpringFactoriesLoader .
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13.4. R2dbcEntityOperations Data Access API
R2dbcEntityTemplate
is the central entrypoint for Spring Data R2DBC.
It provides direct entity-oriented methods and a more narrow, fluent interface for typical ad-hoc use-cases, such as querying, inserting, updating, and deleting data.
The entry points (insert()
, select()
, update()
, and others) follow a natural naming schema based on the operation to be run.
Moving on from the entry point, the API is designed to offer only context-dependent methods that lead to a terminating method that creates and runs a SQL statement.
Spring Data R2DBC uses a R2dbcDialect
abstraction to determine bind markers, pagination support and the data types natively supported by the underlying driver.
All terminal methods return always a Publisher type that represents the desired operation.
The actual statements are sent to the database upon subscription.
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13.4.1. Methods for Inserting and Updating Entities
There are several convenient methods on R2dbcEntityTemplate
for saving and inserting your objects.
To have more fine-grained control over the conversion process, you can register Spring converters with R2dbcCustomConversions
— for example Converter<Person, OutboundRow>
and Converter<Row, Person>
.
The simple case of using the save operation is to save a POJO. In this case, the table name is determined by name (not fully qualified) of the class. You may also call the save operation with a specific collection name. You can use mapping metadata to override the collection in which to store the object.
When inserting or saving, if the Id
property is not set, the assumption is that its value will be auto-generated by the database.
Consequently, for auto-generation the type of the Id
property or field in your class must be a Long
, or Integer
.
The following example shows how to insert a row and retrieving its contents:
R2dbcEntityTemplate
Person person = new Person("John", "Doe");
Mono<Person> saved = template.insert(person);
Mono<Person> loaded = template.selectOne(query(where("firstname").is("John")),
Person.class);
The following insert and update operations are available:
A similar set of insert operations is also available:
-
Mono<T>
insert(T objectToSave)
: Insert the object to the default table. -
Mono<T>
update(T objectToSave)
: Insert the object to the default table.
Table names can be customized by using the fluent API.
13.4.2. Selecting Data
The select(…)
and selectOne(…)
methods on R2dbcEntityTemplate
are used to select data from a table.
Both methods take a Query
object that defines the field projection, the WHERE
clause, the ORDER BY
clause and limit/offset pagination.
Limit/offset functionality is transparent to the application regardless of the underlying database.
This functionality is supported by the R2dbcDialect
abstraction to cater for differences between the individual SQL flavors.
R2dbcEntityTemplate
Flux<Person> loaded = template.select(query(where("firstname").is("John")),
Person.class);
13.4.3. Fluent API
This section explains the fluent API usage. Consider the following simple query:
Flux<Person> people = template.select(Person.class) (1)
.all(); (2)
1 | Using Person with the select(…) method maps tabular results on Person result objects. |
2 | Fetching all() rows returns a Flux<Person> without limiting results. |
The following example declares a more complex query that specifies the table name by name, a WHERE
condition, and an ORDER BY
clause:
Mono<Person> first = template.select(Person.class) (1)
.from("other_person")
.matching(query(where("firstname").is("John") (2)
.and("lastname").in("Doe", "White"))
.sort(by(desc("id")))) (3)
.one(); (4)
1 | Selecting from a table by name returns row results using the given domain type. |
2 | The issued query declares a WHERE condition on firstname and lastname columns to filter results. |
3 | Results can be ordered by individual column names, resulting in an ORDER BY clause. |
4 | Selecting the one result fetches only a single row.
This way of consuming rows expects the query to return exactly a single result.
Mono emits a IncorrectResultSizeDataAccessException if the query yields more than a single result. |
You can directly apply Projections to results by providing the target type via select(Class<?>) .
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You can switch between retrieving a single entity and retrieving multiple entities through the following terminating methods:
-
first()
: Consume only the first row, returning aMono
. The returnedMono
completes without emitting an object if the query returns no results. -
one()
: Consume exactly one row, returning aMono
. The returnedMono
completes without emitting an object if the query returns no results. If the query returns more than one row,Mono
completes exceptionally emittingIncorrectResultSizeDataAccessException
. -
all()
: Consume all returned rows returning aFlux
. -
count()
: Apply a count projection returningMono<Long>
. -
exists()
: Return whether the query yields any rows by returningMono<Boolean>
.
You can use the select()
entry point to express your SELECT
queries.
The resulting SELECT
queries support the commonly used clauses (WHERE
and ORDER BY
) and support pagination.
The fluent API style let you chain together multiple methods while having easy-to-understand code.
To improve readability, you can use static imports that let you avoid using the 'new' keyword for creating Criteria
instances.
Methods for the Criteria Class
The Criteria
class provides the following methods, all of which correspond to SQL operators:
-
Criteria
and(String column)
: Adds a chainedCriteria
with the specifiedproperty
to the currentCriteria
and returns the newly created one. -
Criteria
or(String column)
: Adds a chainedCriteria
with the specifiedproperty
to the currentCriteria
and returns the newly created one. -
Criteria
greaterThan(Object o)
: Creates a criterion by using the>
operator. -
Criteria
greaterThanOrEquals(Object o)
: Creates a criterion by using the>=
operator. -
Criteria
in(Object… o)
: Creates a criterion by using theIN
operator for a varargs argument. -
Criteria
in(Collection<?> collection)
: Creates a criterion by using theIN
operator using a collection. -
Criteria
is(Object o)
: Creates a criterion by using column matching (property = value
). -
Criteria
isNull()
: Creates a criterion by using theIS NULL
operator. -
Criteria
isNotNull()
: Creates a criterion by using theIS NOT NULL
operator. -
Criteria
lessThan(Object o)
: Creates a criterion by using the<
operator. -
Criteria
lessThanOrEquals(Object o)
: Creates a criterion by using the⇐
operator. -
Criteria
like(Object o)
: Creates a criterion by using theLIKE
operator without escape character processing. -
Criteria
not(Object o)
: Creates a criterion by using the!=
operator. -
Criteria
notIn(Object… o)
: Creates a criterion by using theNOT IN
operator for a varargs argument. -
Criteria
notIn(Collection<?> collection)
: Creates a criterion by using theNOT IN
operator using a collection.
You can use Criteria
with SELECT
, UPDATE
, and DELETE
queries.
13.4.4. Inserting Data
You can use the insert()
entry point to insert data.
Consider the following simple typed insert operation:
Mono<Person> insert = template.insert(Person.class) (1)
.using(new Person("John", "Doe")); (2)
1 | Using Person with the into(…) method sets the INTO table, based on mapping metadata.
It also prepares the insert statement to accept Person objects for inserting. |
2 | Provide a scalar Person object.
Alternatively, you can supply a Publisher to run a stream of INSERT statements.
This method extracts all non-null values and inserts them. |
13.4.5. Updating Data
You can use the update()
entry point to update rows.
Updating data starts by specifying the table to update by accepting Update
specifying assignments.
It also accepts Query
to create a WHERE
clause.
Consider the following simple typed update operation:
Person modified = …
Mono<Integer> update = template.update(Person.class) (1)
.inTable("other_table") (2)
.matching(query(where("firstname").is("John"))) (3)
.apply(update("age", 42)); (4)
1 | Update Person objects and apply mapping based on mapping metadata. |
2 | Set a different table name by calling the inTable(…) method. |
3 | Specify a query that translates into a WHERE clause. |
4 | Apply the Update object.
Set in this case age to 42 and return the number of affected rows. |
13.4.6. Deleting Data
You can use the delete()
entry point to delete rows.
Removing data starts with a specification of the table to delete from and, optionally, accepts a Criteria
to create a WHERE
clause.
Consider the following simple insert operation:
Mono<Integer> delete = template.delete(Person.class) (1)
.from("other_table") (2)
.matching(query(where("firstname").is("John"))) (3)
.all(); (4)
1 | Delete Person objects and apply mapping based on mapping metadata. |
2 | Set a different table name by calling the from(…) method. |
3 | Specify a query that translates into a WHERE clause. |
4 | Apply the delete operation and return the number of affected rows. |
14. R2DBC Repositories
This chapter points out the specialties for repository support for R2DBC. This chapter builds on the core repository support explained in Working with Spring Data Repositories. Before reading this chapter, you should have a sound understanding of the basic concepts explained there.
14.1. Usage
To access domain entities stored in a relational database, you can use our sophisticated repository support that eases implementation quite significantly.
To do so, create an interface for your repository.
Consider the following Person
class:
public class Person {
@Id
private Long id;
private String firstname;
private String lastname;
// … getters and setters omitted
}
The following example shows a repository interface for the preceding Person
class:
public interface PersonRepository extends ReactiveCrudRepository<Person, Long> {
// additional custom query methods go here
}
To configure R2DBC repositories, you can use the @EnableR2dbcRepositories
annotation.
If no base package is configured, the infrastructure scans the package of the annotated configuration class.
The following example shows how to use Java configuration for a repository:
@Configuration
@EnableR2dbcRepositories
class ApplicationConfig extends AbstractR2dbcConfiguration {
@Override
public ConnectionFactory connectionFactory() {
return …
}
}
Because our domain repository extends ReactiveCrudRepository
, it provides you with reactive CRUD operations to access the entities.
On top of ReactiveCrudRepository
, there is also ReactiveSortingRepository
, which adds additional sorting functionality similar to that of PagingAndSortingRepository
.
Working with the repository instance is merely a matter of dependency injecting it into a client.
Consequently, you can retrieve all Person
objects with the following code:
@ExtendWith(SpringExtension.class)
@ContextConfiguration
class PersonRepositoryTests {
@Autowired
PersonRepository repository;
@Test
void readsAllEntitiesCorrectly() {
repository.findAll()
.as(StepVerifier::create)
.expectNextCount(1)
.verifyComplete();
}
@Test
void readsEntitiesByNameCorrectly() {
repository.findByFirstname("Hello World")
.as(StepVerifier::create)
.expectNextCount(1)
.verifyComplete();
}
}
The preceding example creates an application context with Spring’s unit test support, which performs annotation-based dependency injection into test cases.
Inside the test method, we use the repository to query the database.
We use StepVerifier
as a test aid to verify our expectations against the results.
14.2. Query Methods
Most of the data access operations you usually trigger on a repository result in a query being run against the databases. Defining such a query is a matter of declaring a method on the repository interface, as the following example shows:
interface ReactivePersonRepository extends ReactiveSortingRepository<Person, Long> {
Flux<Person> findByFirstname(String firstname); (1)
Flux<Person> findByFirstname(Publisher<String> firstname); (2)
Flux<Person> findByFirstnameOrderByLastname(String firstname, Pageable pageable); (3)
Mono<Person> findByFirstnameAndLastname(String firstname, String lastname); (4)
Mono<Person> findFirstByLastname(String lastname); (5)
@Query("SELECT * FROM person WHERE lastname = :lastname")
Flux<Person> findByLastname(String lastname); (6)
@Query("SELECT firstname, lastname FROM person WHERE lastname = $1")
Mono<Person> findFirstByLastname(String lastname); (7)
}
1 | The method shows a query for all people with the given firstname . The query is derived by parsing the method name for constraints that can be concatenated with And and Or . Thus, the method name results in a query expression of SELECT … FROM person WHERE firstname = :firstname . |
2 | The method shows a query for all people with the given firstname once the firstname is emitted by the given Publisher . |
3 | Use Pageable to pass offset and sorting parameters to the database. |
4 | Find a single entity for the given criteria. It completes with IncorrectResultSizeDataAccessException on non-unique results. |
5 | Unless <4>, the first entity is always emitted even if the query yields more result rows. |
6 | The findByLastname method shows a query for all people with the given last name. |
7 | A query for a single Person entity projecting only firstname and lastname columns.
The annotated query uses native bind markers, which are Postgres bind markers in this example. |
Note that the columns of a select statement used in a @Query
annotation must match the names generated by the NamingStrategy
for the respective property.
If a select statement does not include a matching column, that property is not set. If that property is required by the persistence constructor, either null or (for primitive types) the default value is provided.
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14.2.1. Modifying Queries
The previous sections describe how to declare queries to access a given entity or collection of entities.
Using keywords from the preceding table can be used in conjunction with delete…By
or remove…By
to create derived queries that delete matching rows.
Delete…By
Queryinterface ReactivePersonRepository extends ReactiveSortingRepository<Person, String> {
Mono<Integer> deleteByLastname(String lastname); (1)
Mono<Void> deletePersonByLastname(String lastname); (2)
Mono<Boolean> deletePersonByLastname(String lastname); (3)
}
1 | Using a return type of Mono<Integer> returns the number of affected rows. |
2 | Using Void just reports whether the rows were successfully deleted without emitting a result value. |
3 | Using Boolean reports whether at least one row was removed. |
As this approach is feasible for comprehensive custom functionality, you can modify queries that only need parameter binding by annotating the query method with @Modifying
, as shown in the following example:
@Modifying
@Query("UPDATE person SET firstname = :firstname where lastname = :lastname")
Mono<Integer> setFixedFirstnameFor(String firstname, String lastname);
The result of a modifying query can be:
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Void
(or KotlinUnit
) to discard update count and await completion. -
Integer
or another numeric type emitting the affected rows count. -
Boolean
to emit whether at least one row was updated.
The @Modifying
annotation is only relevant in combination with the @Query
annotation.
Derived custom methods do not require this annotation.
Alternatively, you can add custom modifying behavior by using the facilities described in Custom Implementations for Spring Data Repositories.
14.2.2. Queries with SpEL Expressions
Query string definitions can be used together with SpEL expressions to create dynamic queries at runtime. SpEL expressions can provide predicate values which are evaluated right before running the query.
Expressions expose method arguments through an array that contains all the arguments.
The following query uses [0]
to declare the predicate value for lastname
(which is equivalent to the :lastname
parameter binding):
@Query("SELECT * FROM person WHERE lastname = :#{[0]}")
Flux<Person> findByQueryWithExpression(String lastname);
SpEL in query strings can be a powerful way to enhance queries. However, they can also accept a broad range of unwanted arguments. You should make sure to sanitize strings before passing them to the query to avoid unwanted changes to your query.
Expression support is extensible through the Query SPI: org.springframework.data.spel.spi.EvaluationContextExtension
.
The Query SPI can contribute properties and functions and can customize the root object.
Extensions are retrieved from the application context at the time of SpEL evaluation when the query is built.
When using SpEL expressions in combination with plain parameters, use named parameter notation instead of native bind markers to ensure a proper binding order. |
14.2.3. Query By Example
Spring Data R2DBC also lets you use Query By Example to fashion queries.
This technique allows you to use a "probe" object.
Essentially, any field that isn’t empty or null
will be used to match.
Here’s an example:
Employee employee = new Employee(); (1)
employee.setName("Frodo");
Example<Employee> example = Example.of(employee); (2)
Flux<Employee> employees = repository.findAll(example); (3)
// do whatever with the flux
1 | Create a domain object with the criteria (null fields will be ignored). |
2 | Using the domain object, create an Example . |
3 | Through the R2dbcRepository , execute query (use findOne for a Mono ). |
This illustrates how to craft a simple probe using a domain object.
In this case, it will query based on the Employee
object’s name
field being equal to Frodo
.
null
fields are ignored.
Employee employee = new Employee();
employee.setName("Baggins");
employee.setRole("ring bearer");
ExampleMatcher matcher = matching() (1)
.withMatcher("name", endsWith()) (2)
.withIncludeNullValues() (3)
.withIgnorePaths("role"); (4)
Example<Employee> example = Example.of(employee, matcher); (5)
Flux<Employee> employees = repository.findAll(example);
// do whatever with the flux
1 | Create a custom ExampleMatcher that matches on ALL fields (use matchingAny() to match on ANY fields) |
2 | For the name field, use a wildcard that matches against the end of the field |
3 | Match columns against null (don’t forget that NULL doesn’t equal NULL in relational databases). |
4 | Ignore the role field when forming the query. |
5 | Plug the custom ExampleMatcher into the probe. |
It’s also possible to apply a withTransform()
against any property, allowing you to transform a property before forming the query.
For example, you can apply a toUpperCase()
to a String
-based property before the query is created.
Query By Example really shines when you you don’t know all the fields needed in a query in advance. If you were building a filter on a web page where the user can pick the fields, Query By Example is a great way to flexibly capture that into an efficient query.
14.2.4. Entity State Detection Strategies
The following table describes the strategies that Spring Data offers for detecting whether an entity is new:
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By default, Spring Data inspects the identifier property of the given entity.
If the identifier property is |
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If a property annotated with |
Implementing |
If an entity implements Note: Properties of |
Providing a custom |
You can customize the |
14.2.5. ID Generation
Spring Data R2DBC uses the ID to identify entities.
The ID of an entity must be annotated with Spring Data’s @Id
annotation.
When your database has an auto-increment column for the ID column, the generated value gets set in the entity after inserting it into the database.
Spring Data R2DBC does not attempt to insert values of identifier columns when the entity is new and the identifier value defaults to its initial value.
That is 0
for primitive types and null
if the identifier property uses a numeric wrapper type such as Long
.
One important constraint is that, after saving an entity, the entity must not be new anymore. Note that whether an entity is new is part of the entity’s state. With auto-increment columns, this happens automatically, because the ID gets set by Spring Data with the value from the ID column.
14.2.6. Optimistic Locking
The @Version
annotation provides syntax similar to that of JPA in the context of R2DBC and makes sure updates are only applied to rows with a matching version.
Therefore, the actual value of the version property is added to the update query in such a way that the update does not have any effect if another operation altered the row in the meantime.
In that case, an OptimisticLockingFailureException
is thrown.
The following example shows these features:
@Table
class Person {
@Id Long id;
String firstname;
String lastname;
@Version Long version;
}
R2dbcEntityTemplate template = …;
Mono<Person> daenerys = template.insert(new Person("Daenerys")); (1)
Person other = template.select(Person.class)
.matching(query(where("id").is(daenerys.getId())))
.first().block(); (2)
daenerys.setLastname("Targaryen");
template.update(daenerys); (3)
template.update(other).subscribe(); // emits OptimisticLockingFailureException (4)
1 | Initially insert row. version is set to 0 . |
2 | Load the just inserted row. version is still 0 . |
3 | Update the row with version = 0 .Set the lastname and bump version to 1 . |
4 | Try to update the previously loaded row that still has version = 0 .The operation fails with an OptimisticLockingFailureException , as the current version is 1 . |
14.2.7. Projections
Spring Data query methods usually return one or multiple instances of the aggregate root managed by the repository. However, it might sometimes be desirable to create projections based on certain attributes of those types. Spring Data allows modeling dedicated return types, to more selectively retrieve partial views of the managed aggregates.
Imagine a repository and aggregate root type such as the following example:
class Person {
@Id UUID id;
String firstname, lastname;
Address address;
static class Address {
String zipCode, city, street;
}
}
interface PersonRepository extends Repository<Person, UUID> {
Flux<Person> findByLastname(String lastname);
}
Now imagine that we want to retrieve the person’s name attributes only. What means does Spring Data offer to achieve this? The rest of this chapter answers that question.
Interface-based Projections
The easiest way to limit the result of the queries to only the name attributes is by declaring an interface that exposes accessor methods for the properties to be read, as shown in the following example:
interface NamesOnly {
String getFirstname();
String getLastname();
}
The important bit here is that the properties defined here exactly match properties in the aggregate root. Doing so lets a query method be added as follows:
interface PersonRepository extends Repository<Person, UUID> {
Flux<NamesOnly> findByLastname(String lastname);
}
The query execution engine creates proxy instances of that interface at runtime for each element returned and forwards calls to the exposed methods to the target object.
Declaring a method in your Repository that overrides a base method (e.g. declared in CrudRepository , a store-specific repository interface, or the Simple…Repository ) results in a call to the base method regardless of the declared return type. Make sure to use a compatible return type as base methods cannot be used for projections. Some store modules support @Query annotations to turn an overridden base method into a query method that then can be used to return projections.
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Projections can be used recursively. If you want to include some of the Address
information as well, create a projection interface for that and return that interface from the declaration of getAddress()
, as shown in the following example:
interface PersonSummary {
String getFirstname();
String getLastname();
AddressSummary getAddress();
interface AddressSummary {
String getCity();
}
}
On method invocation, the address
property of the target instance is obtained and wrapped into a projecting proxy in turn.
Closed Projections
A projection interface whose accessor methods all match properties of the target aggregate is considered to be a closed projection. The following example (which we used earlier in this chapter, too) is a closed projection:
interface NamesOnly {
String getFirstname();
String getLastname();
}
If you use a closed projection, Spring Data can optimize the query execution, because we know about all the attributes that are needed to back the projection proxy. For more details on that, see the module-specific part of the reference documentation.
Open Projections
Accessor methods in projection interfaces can also be used to compute new values by using the @Value
annotation, as shown in the following example:
interface NamesOnly {
@Value("#{target.firstname + ' ' + target.lastname}")
String getFullName();
…
}
The aggregate root backing the projection is available in the target
variable.
A projection interface using @Value
is an open projection.
Spring Data cannot apply query execution optimizations in this case, because the SpEL expression could use any attribute of the aggregate root.
The expressions used in @Value
should not be too complex — you want to avoid programming in String
variables.
For very simple expressions, one option might be to resort to default methods (introduced in Java 8), as shown in the following example:
interface NamesOnly {
String getFirstname();
String getLastname();
default String getFullName() {
return getFirstname().concat(" ").concat(getLastname());
}
}
This approach requires you to be able to implement logic purely based on the other accessor methods exposed on the projection interface. A second, more flexible, option is to implement the custom logic in a Spring bean and then invoke that from the SpEL expression, as shown in the following example:
@Component
class MyBean {
String getFullName(Person person) {
…
}
}
interface NamesOnly {
@Value("#{@myBean.getFullName(target)}")
String getFullName();
…
}
Notice how the SpEL expression refers to myBean
and invokes the getFullName(…)
method and forwards the projection target as a method parameter.
Methods backed by SpEL expression evaluation can also use method parameters, which can then be referred to from the expression.
The method parameters are available through an Object
array named args
. The following example shows how to get a method parameter from the args
array:
interface NamesOnly {
@Value("#{args[0] + ' ' + target.firstname + '!'}")
String getSalutation(String prefix);
}
Again, for more complex expressions, you should use a Spring bean and let the expression invoke a method, as described earlier.
Nullable Wrappers
Getters in projection interfaces can make use of nullable wrappers for improved null-safety. Currently supported wrapper types are:
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java.util.Optional
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com.google.common.base.Optional
-
scala.Option
-
io.vavr.control.Option
interface NamesOnly {
Optional<String> getFirstname();
}
If the underlying projection value is not null
, then values are returned using the present-representation of the wrapper type.
In case the backing value is null
, then the getter method returns the empty representation of the used wrapper type.
Class-based Projections (DTOs)
Another way of defining projections is by using value type DTOs (Data Transfer Objects) that hold properties for the fields that are supposed to be retrieved. These DTO types can be used in exactly the same way projection interfaces are used, except that no proxying happens and no nested projections can be applied.
If the store optimizes the query execution by limiting the fields to be loaded, the fields to be loaded are determined from the parameter names of the constructor that is exposed.
The following example shows a projecting DTO:
class NamesOnly {
private final String firstname, lastname;
NamesOnly(String firstname, String lastname) {
this.firstname = firstname;
this.lastname = lastname;
}
String getFirstname() {
return this.firstname;
}
String getLastname() {
return this.lastname;
}
// equals(…) and hashCode() implementations
}
Avoid boilerplate code for projection DTOs
You can dramatically simplify the code for a DTO by using Project Lombok, which provides an
Fields are |
Dynamic Projections
So far, we have used the projection type as the return type or element type of a collection. However, you might want to select the type to be used at invocation time (which makes it dynamic). To apply dynamic projections, use a query method such as the one shown in the following example:
interface PersonRepository extends Repository<Person, UUID> {
<T> Flux<T> findByLastname(String lastname, Class<T> type);
}
This way, the method can be used to obtain the aggregates as is or with a projection applied, as shown in the following example:
void someMethod(PersonRepository people) {
Flux<Person> aggregates =
people.findByLastname("Matthews", Person.class);
Flux<NamesOnly> aggregates =
people.findByLastname("Matthews", NamesOnly.class);
}
Result Mapping
A query method returning an Interface- or DTO projection is backed by results produced by the actual query.
Interface projections generally rely on mapping results onto the domain type first to consider potential @Column
type mappings and the actual projection proxy uses a potentially partially materialized entity to expose projection data.
Result mapping for DTO projections depends on the actual query type. Derived queries use the domain type to map results, and Spring Data creates DTO instances solely from properties available on the domain type. Declaring properties in your DTO that are not available on the domain type is not supported.
String-based queries use a different approach since the actual query, specifically the field projection, and result type declaration are close together.
DTO projections used with query methods annotated with @Query
map query results directly into the DTO type.
Field mappings on the domain type are not considered.
Using the DTO type directly, your query method can benefit from a more dynamic projection that isn’t restricted to the domain model.
14.3. Entity Callbacks
The Spring Data infrastructure provides hooks for modifying an entity before and after certain methods are invoked.
Those so called EntityCallback
instances provide a convenient way to check and potentially modify an entity in a callback fashioned style.
An EntityCallback
looks pretty much like a specialized ApplicationListener
.
Some Spring Data modules publish store specific events (such as BeforeSaveEvent
) that allow modifying the given entity. In some cases, such as when working with immutable types, these events can cause trouble.
Also, event publishing relies on ApplicationEventMulticaster
. If configuring that with an asynchronous TaskExecutor
it can lead to unpredictable outcomes, as event processing can be forked onto a Thread.
Entity callbacks provide integration points with both synchronous and reactive APIs to guarantee in-order execution at well-defined checkpoints within the processing chain, returning a potentially modified entity or an reactive wrapper type.
Entity callbacks are typically separated by API type. This separation means that a synchronous API considers only synchronous entity callbacks and a reactive implementation considers only reactive entity callbacks.
The Entity Callback API has been introduced with Spring Data Commons 2.2. It is the recommended way of applying entity modifications.
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14.3.1. Implementing Entity Callbacks
An EntityCallback
is directly associated with its domain type through its generic type argument.
Each Spring Data module typically ships with a set of predefined EntityCallback
interfaces covering the entity lifecycle.
EntityCallback
@FunctionalInterface
public interface BeforeSaveCallback<T> extends EntityCallback<T> {
/**
* Entity callback method invoked before a domain object is saved.
* Can return either the same or a modified instance.
*
* @return the domain object to be persisted.
*/
T onBeforeSave(T entity <2>, String collection <3>); (1)
}
1 | BeforeSaveCallback specific method to be called before an entity is saved. Returns a potentially modifed instance. |
2 | The entity right before persisting. |
3 | A number of store specific arguments like the collection the entity is persisted to. |
EntityCallback
@FunctionalInterface
public interface ReactiveBeforeSaveCallback<T> extends EntityCallback<T> {
/**
* Entity callback method invoked on subscription, before a domain object is saved.
* The returned Publisher can emit either the same or a modified instance.
*
* @return Publisher emitting the domain object to be persisted.
*/
Publisher<T> onBeforeSave(T entity <2>, String collection <3>); (1)
}
1 | BeforeSaveCallback specific method to be called on subscription, before an entity is saved. Emits a potentially modifed instance. |
2 | The entity right before persisting. |
3 | A number of store specific arguments like the collection the entity is persisted to. |
Optional entity callback parameters are defined by the implementing Spring Data module and inferred from call site of EntityCallback.callback() .
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Implement the interface suiting your application needs like shown in the example below:
BeforeSaveCallback
class DefaultingEntityCallback implements BeforeSaveCallback<Person>, Ordered { (2)
@Override
public Object onBeforeSave(Person entity, String collection) { (1)
if(collection == "user") {
return // ...
}
return // ...
}
@Override
public int getOrder() {
return 100; (2)
}
}
1 | Callback implementation according to your requirements. |
2 | Potentially order the entity callback if multiple ones for the same domain type exist. Ordering follows lowest precedence. |
14.3.2. Registering Entity Callbacks
EntityCallback
beans are picked up by the store specific implementations in case they are registered in the ApplicationContext
.
Most template APIs already implement ApplicationContextAware
and therefore have access to the ApplicationContext
The following example explains a collection of valid entity callback registrations:
EntityCallback
Bean registration@Order(1) (1)
@Component
class First implements BeforeSaveCallback<Person> {
@Override
public Person onBeforeSave(Person person) {
return // ...
}
}
@Component
class DefaultingEntityCallback implements BeforeSaveCallback<Person>,
Ordered { (2)
@Override
public Object onBeforeSave(Person entity, String collection) {
// ...
}
@Override
public int getOrder() {
return 100; (2)
}
}
@Configuration
public class EntityCallbackConfiguration {
@Bean
BeforeSaveCallback<Person> unorderedLambdaReceiverCallback() { (3)
return (BeforeSaveCallback<Person>) it -> // ...
}
}
@Component
class UserCallbacks implements BeforeConvertCallback<User>,
BeforeSaveCallback<User> { (4)
@Override
public Person onBeforeConvert(User user) {
return // ...
}
@Override
public Person onBeforeSave(User user) {
return // ...
}
}
1 | BeforeSaveCallback receiving its order from the @Order annotation. |
2 | BeforeSaveCallback receiving its order via the Ordered interface implementation. |
3 | BeforeSaveCallback using a lambda expression. Unordered by default and invoked last. Note that callbacks implemented by a lambda expression do not expose typing information hence invoking these with a non-assignable entity affects the callback throughput. Use a class or enum to enable type filtering for the callback bean. |
4 | Combine multiple entity callback interfaces in a single implementation class. |
14.3.3. Store specific EntityCallbacks
Spring Data R2DBC uses the EntityCallback
API for its auditing support and reacts on the following callbacks.
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BeforeConvertCallback |
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AfterConvertCallback |
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Invoked after a domain object is loaded. |
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AuditingEntityCallback |
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Marks an auditable entity created or modified |
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BeforeSaveCallback |
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Invoked before a domain object is saved. |
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AfterSaveCallback |
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Invoked after a domain object is saved. |
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14.4. Working with multiple Databases
When working with multiple, potentially different databases, your application will require a different approach to configuration.
The provided AbstractR2dbcConfiguration
support class assumes a single ConnectionFactory
from which the Dialect
gets derived.
That being said, you need to define a few beans yourself to configure Spring Data R2DBC to work with multiple databases.
R2DBC repositories require R2dbcEntityOperations
to implement repositories.
A simple configuration to scan for repositories without using AbstractR2dbcConfiguration
looks like:
@Configuration
@EnableR2dbcRepositories(basePackages = "com.acme.mysql", entityOperationsRef = "mysqlR2dbcEntityOperations")
static class MySQLConfiguration {
@Bean
@Qualifier("mysql")
public ConnectionFactory mysqlConnectionFactory() {
return …
}
@Bean
public R2dbcEntityOperations mysqlR2dbcEntityOperations(@Qualifier("mysql") ConnectionFactory connectionFactory) {
DatabaseClient databaseClient = DatabaseClient.create(connectionFactory);
return new R2dbcEntityTemplate(databaseClient, MySqlDialect.INSTANCE);
}
}
Note that @EnableR2dbcRepositories
allows configuration either through databaseClientRef
or entityOperationsRef
.
Using various DatabaseClient
beans is useful when connecting to multiple databases of the same type.
When using different database systems that differ in their dialect, use @EnableR2dbcRepositories
(entityOperationsRef = …)` instead.
15. Auditing
15.1. Basics
Spring Data provides sophisticated support to transparently keep track of who created or changed an entity and when the change happened. To benefit from that functionality, you have to equip your entity classes with auditing metadata that can be defined either using annotations or by implementing an interface. Additionally, auditing has to be enabled either through Annotation configuration or XML configuration to register the required infrastructure components. Please refer to the store-specific section for configuration samples.
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15.1.1. Annotation-based Auditing Metadata
We provide @CreatedBy
and @LastModifiedBy
to capture the user who created or modified the entity as well as @CreatedDate
and @LastModifiedDate
to capture when the change happened.
class Customer {
@CreatedBy
private User user;
@CreatedDate
private Instant createdDate;
// … further properties omitted
}
As you can see, the annotations can be applied selectively, depending on which information you want to capture. The annotations capturing when changes were made can be used on properties of type Joda-Time, DateTime
, legacy Java Date
and Calendar
, JDK8 date and time types, and long
or Long
.
Auditing metadata does not necessarily need to live in the root level entity but can be added to an embedded one (depending on the actual store in use), as shown in the snipped below.
class Customer {
private AuditMetadata auditingMetadata;
// … further properties omitted
}
class AuditMetadata {
@CreatedBy
private User user;
@CreatedDate
private Instant createdDate;
}
15.1.2. Interface-based Auditing Metadata
In case you do not want to use annotations to define auditing metadata, you can let your domain class implement the Auditable
interface. It exposes setter methods for all of the auditing properties.
15.1.3. AuditorAware
In case you use either @CreatedBy
or @LastModifiedBy
, the auditing infrastructure somehow needs to become aware of the current principal. To do so, we provide an AuditorAware<T>
SPI interface that you have to implement to tell the infrastructure who the current user or system interacting with the application is. The generic type T
defines what type the properties annotated with @CreatedBy
or @LastModifiedBy
have to be.
The following example shows an implementation of the interface that uses Spring Security’s Authentication
object:
AuditorAware
based on Spring Securityclass SpringSecurityAuditorAware implements AuditorAware<User> {
@Override
public Optional<User> getCurrentAuditor() {
return Optional.ofNullable(SecurityContextHolder.getContext())
.map(SecurityContext::getAuthentication)
.filter(Authentication::isAuthenticated)
.map(Authentication::getPrincipal)
.map(User.class::cast);
}
}
The implementation accesses the Authentication
object provided by Spring Security and looks up the custom UserDetails
instance that you have created in your UserDetailsService
implementation. We assume here that you are exposing the domain user through the UserDetails
implementation but that, based on the Authentication
found, you could also look it up from anywhere.
15.1.4. ReactiveAuditorAware
When using reactive infrastructure you might want to make use of contextual information to provide @CreatedBy
or @LastModifiedBy
information.
We provide an ReactiveAuditorAware<T>
SPI interface that you have to implement to tell the infrastructure who the current user or system interacting with the application is. The generic type T
defines what type the properties annotated with @CreatedBy
or @LastModifiedBy
have to be.
The following example shows an implementation of the interface that uses reactive Spring Security’s Authentication
object:
ReactiveAuditorAware
based on Spring Securityclass SpringSecurityAuditorAware implements ReactiveAuditorAware<User> {
@Override
public Mono<User> getCurrentAuditor() {
return ReactiveSecurityContextHolder.getContext()
.map(SecurityContext::getAuthentication)
.filter(Authentication::isAuthenticated)
.map(Authentication::getPrincipal)
.map(User.class::cast);
}
}
The implementation accesses the Authentication
object provided by Spring Security and looks up the custom UserDetails
instance that you have created in your UserDetailsService
implementation. We assume here that you are exposing the domain user through the UserDetails
implementation but that, based on the Authentication
found, you could also look it up from anywhere.
15.2. General Auditing Configuration for R2DBC
Since Spring Data R2DBC 1.2, auditing can be enabled by annotating a configuration class with the @EnableR2dbcAuditing
annotation, as the following example shows:
@Configuration
@EnableR2dbcAuditing
class Config {
@Bean
public ReactiveAuditorAware<AuditableUser> myAuditorProvider() {
return new AuditorAwareImpl();
}
}
If you expose a bean of type ReactiveAuditorAware
to the ApplicationContext
, the auditing infrastructure picks it up automatically and uses it to determine the current user to be set on domain types.
If you have multiple implementations registered in the ApplicationContext
, you can select the one to be used by explicitly setting the auditorAwareRef
attribute of @EnableR2dbcAuditing
.
16. Mapping
Rich mapping support is provided by the MappingR2dbcConverter
. MappingR2dbcConverter
has a rich metadata model that allows mapping domain objects to a data row.
The mapping metadata model is populated by using annotations on your domain objects.
However, the infrastructure is not limited to using annotations as the only source of metadata information.
The MappingR2dbcConverter
also lets you map objects to rows without providing any additional metadata, by following a set of conventions.
This section describes the features of the MappingR2dbcConverter
, including how to use conventions for mapping objects to rows and how to override those conventions with annotation-based mapping metadata.
16.1. Object Mapping Fundamentals
This section covers the fundamentals of Spring Data object mapping, object creation, field and property access, mutability and immutability. Note, that this section only applies to Spring Data modules that do not use the object mapping of the underlying data store (like JPA). Also be sure to consult the store-specific sections for store-specific object mapping, like indexes, customizing column or field names or the like.
Core responsibility of the Spring Data object mapping is to create instances of domain objects and map the store-native data structures onto those. This means we need two fundamental steps:
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Instance creation by using one of the constructors exposed.
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Instance population to materialize all exposed properties.
16.1.1. Object creation
Spring Data automatically tries to detect a persistent entity’s constructor to be used to materialize objects of that type. The resolution algorithm works as follows:
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If there is a single constructor, it is used.
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If there’s a no-argument constructor, it is used. Other constructors will be ignored.
The value resolution assumes constructor argument names to match the property names of the entity, i.e. the resolution will be performed as if the property was to be populated, including all customizations in mapping (different datastore column or field name etc.).
This also requires either parameter names information available in the class file or an @ConstructorProperties
annotation being present on the constructor.
The value resolution can be customized by using Spring Framework’s @Value
value annotation using a store-specific SpEL expression.
Please consult the section on store specific mappings for further details.
16.1.2. Property population
Once an instance of the entity has been created, Spring Data populates all remaining persistent properties of that class. Unless already populated by the entity’s constructor (i.e. consumed through its constructor argument list), the identifier property will be populated first to allow the resolution of cyclic object references. After that, all non-transient properties that have not already been populated by the constructor are set on the entity instance. For that we use the following algorithm:
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If the property is immutable but exposes a
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method (see below), we use thewith…
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If property access (i.e. access through getters and setters) is defined, we’re invoking the setter method.
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If the property is mutable we set the field directly.
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If the property is immutable we’re using the constructor to be used by persistence operations (see Object creation) to create a copy of the instance.
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By default, we set the field value directly.
Let’s have a look at the following entity:
class Person {
private final @Id Long id; (1)
private final String firstname, lastname; (2)
private final LocalDate birthday;
private final int age; (3)
private String comment; (4)
private @AccessType(Type.PROPERTY) String remarks; (5)
static Person of(String firstname, String lastname, LocalDate birthday) { (6)
return new Person(null, firstname, lastname, birthday,
Period.between(birthday, LocalDate.now()).getYears());
}
Person(Long id, String firstname, String lastname, LocalDate birthday, int age) { (6)
this.id = id;
this.firstname = firstname;
this.lastname = lastname;
this.birthday = birthday;
this.age = age;
}
Person withId(Long id) { (1)
return new Person(id, this.firstname, this.lastname, this.birthday, this.age);
}
void setRemarks(String remarks) { (5)
this.remarks = remarks;
}
}
1 | The identifier property is final but set to null in the constructor.
The class exposes a withId(…) method that’s used to set the identifier, e.g. when an instance is inserted into the datastore and an identifier has been generated.
The original Person instance stays unchanged as a new one is created.
The same pattern is usually applied for other properties that are store managed but might have to be changed for persistence operations.
The wither method is optional as the persistence constructor (see 6) is effectively a copy constructor and setting the property will be translated into creating a fresh instance with the new identifier value applied. |
2 | The firstname and lastname properties are ordinary immutable properties potentially exposed through getters. |
3 | The age property is an immutable but derived one from the birthday property.
With the design shown, the database value will trump the defaulting as Spring Data uses the only declared constructor.
Even if the intent is that the calculation should be preferred, it’s important that this constructor also takes age as parameter (to potentially ignore it) as otherwise the property population step will attempt to set the age field and fail due to it being immutable and no with… method being present. |
4 | The comment property is mutable is populated by setting its field directly. |
5 | The remarks properties are mutable and populated by setting the comment field directly or by invoking the setter method for |
6 | The class exposes a factory method and a constructor for object creation.
The core idea here is to use factory methods instead of additional constructors to avoid the need for constructor disambiguation through @PersistenceConstructor .
Instead, defaulting of properties is handled within the factory method. |
16.1.3. General recommendations
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Try to stick to immutable objects — Immutable objects are straightforward to create as materializing an object is then a matter of calling its constructor only. Also, this avoids your domain objects to be littered with setter methods that allow client code to manipulate the objects state. If you need those, prefer to make them package protected so that they can only be invoked by a limited amount of co-located types. Constructor-only materialization is up to 30% faster than properties population.
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Provide an all-args constructor — Even if you cannot or don’t want to model your entities as immutable values, there’s still value in providing a constructor that takes all properties of the entity as arguments, including the mutable ones, as this allows the object mapping to skip the property population for optimal performance.
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Use factory methods instead of overloaded constructors to avoid
@PersistenceConstructor
— With an all-argument constructor needed for optimal performance, we usually want to expose more application use case specific constructors that omit things like auto-generated identifiers etc. It’s an established pattern to rather use static factory methods to expose these variants of the all-args constructor. -
Make sure you adhere to the constraints that allow the generated instantiator and property accessor classes to be used —
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For identifiers to be generated, still use a final field in combination with an all-arguments persistence constructor (preferred) or a
with…
method — -
Use Lombok to avoid boilerplate code — As persistence operations usually require a constructor taking all arguments, their declaration becomes a tedious repetition of boilerplate parameter to field assignments that can best be avoided by using Lombok’s
@AllArgsConstructor
.
16.1.4. Kotlin support
Spring Data adapts specifics of Kotlin to allow object creation and mutation.
Kotlin object creation
Kotlin classes are supported to be instantiated , all classes are immutable by default and require explicit property declarations to define mutable properties.
Consider the following data
class Person
:
data class Person(val id: String, val name: String)
The class above compiles to a typical class with an explicit constructor.We can customize this class by adding another constructor and annotate it with @PersistenceConstructor
to indicate a constructor preference:
data class Person(var id: String, val name: String) {
@PersistenceConstructor
constructor(id: String) : this(id, "unknown")
}
Kotlin supports parameter optionality by allowing default values to be used if a parameter is not provided.
When Spring Data detects a constructor with parameter defaulting, then it leaves these parameters absent if the data store does not provide a value (or simply returns null
) so Kotlin can apply parameter defaulting.Consider the following class that applies parameter defaulting for name
data class Person(var id: String, val name: String = "unknown")
Every time the name
parameter is either not part of the result or its value is null
, then the name
defaults to unknown
.
Property population of Kotlin data classes
In Kotlin, all classes are immutable by default and require explicit property declarations to define mutable properties.
Consider the following data
class Person
:
data class Person(val id: String, val name: String)
This class is effectively immutable.
It allows creating new instances as Kotlin generates a copy(…)
method that creates new object instances copying all property values from the existing object and applying property values provided as arguments to the method.
16.2. Convention-based Mapping
MappingR2dbcConverter
has a few conventions for mapping objects to rows when no additional mapping metadata is provided.
The conventions are:
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The short Java class name is mapped to the table name in the following manner. The
com.bigbank.SavingsAccount
class maps to theSAVINGS_ACCOUNT
table name. The same name mapping is applied for mapping fields to column names. For example, thefirstName
field maps to theFIRST_NAME
column. You can control this mapping by providing a customNamingStrategy
. See Mapping Configuration for more detail. Table and column names that are derived from property or class names are used in SQL statements without quotes by default. You can control this behavior by settingR2dbcMappingContext.setForceQuote(true)
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Nested objects are not supported.
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The converter uses any Spring Converters registered with it to override the default mapping of object properties to row columns and values.
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The fields of an object are used to convert to and from columns in the row. Public
JavaBean
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If you have a single non-zero-argument constructor whose constructor argument names match top-level column names of the row, that constructor is used. Otherwise, the zero-argument constructor is used. If there is more than one non-zero-argument constructor, an exception is thrown.
16.3. Mapping Configuration
By default (unless explicitly configured) an instance of MappingR2dbcConverter
is created when you create a DatabaseClient
.
You can create your own instance of the MappingR2dbcConverter
.
By creating your own instance, you can register Spring converters to map specific classes to and from the database.
You can configure the MappingR2dbcConverter
as well as DatabaseClient
and ConnectionFactory
by using Java-based metadata. The following example uses Spring’s Java-based configuration:
If you set setForceQuote
of the R2dbcMappingContext to
true, table and column names derived from classes and properties are used with database specific quotes.
This means that it is OK to use reserved SQL words (such as order) in these names.
You can do so by overriding r2dbcMappingContext(Optional<NamingStrategy>)
of AbstractR2dbcConfiguration
.
Spring Data converts the letter casing of such a name to that form which is also used by the configured database when no quoting is used.
Therefore, you can use unquoted names when creating tables, as long as you do not use keywords or special characters in your names.
For databases that adhere to the SQL standard, this means that names are converted to upper case.
The quoting character and the way names get capitalized is controlled by the used Dialect
.
See R2DBC Drivers for how to configure custom dialects.
@Configuration
public class MyAppConfig extends AbstractR2dbcConfiguration {
public ConnectionFactory connectionFactory() {
return ConnectionFactories.get("r2dbc:…");
}
// the following are optional
@Override
protected List<Object> getCustomConverters() {
List<Converter<?, ?>> converterList = new ArrayList<Converter<?, ?>>();
converterList.add(new org.springframework.data.r2dbc.test.PersonReadConverter());
converterList.add(new org.springframework.data.r2dbc.test.PersonWriteConverter());
return converterList;
}
}
AbstractR2dbcConfiguration
requires you to implement a method that defines a ConnectionFactory
.
You can add additional converters to the converter by overriding the r2dbcCustomConversions
method.
You can configure a custom NamingStrategy
by registering it as a bean.
The NamingStrategy
controls how the names of classes and properties get converted to the names of tables and columns.
AbstractR2dbcConfiguration creates a DatabaseClient instance and registers it with the container under the name of databaseClient .
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16.4. Metadata-based Mapping
To take full advantage of the object mapping functionality inside the Spring Data R2DBC support, you should annotate your mapped objects with the @Table
annotation.
Although it is not necessary for the mapping framework to have this annotation (your POJOs are mapped correctly, even without any annotations), it lets the classpath scanner find and pre-process your domain objects to extract the necessary metadata.
If you do not use this annotation, your application takes a slight performance hit the first time you store a domain object, because the mapping framework needs to build up its internal metadata model so that it knows about the properties of your domain object and how to persist them.
The following example shows a domain object:
package com.mycompany.domain;
@Table
public class Person {
@Id
private Long id;
private Integer ssn;
private String firstName;
private String lastName;
}
The @Id annotation tells the mapper which property you want to use as the primary key.
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16.4.1. Default Type Mapping
The following table explains how property types of an entity affect mapping:
Source Type | Target Type | Remarks |
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Primitive types and wrapper types |
Passthru |
Can be customized using Explicit Converters. |
JSR-310 Date/Time types |
Passthru |
Can be customized using Explicit Converters. |
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Passthru |
Can be customized using Explicit Converters. |
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String |
Can be customized by registering a Explicit Converters. |
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Passthru |
Can be customized using Explicit Converters. |
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Passthru |
Considered a binary payload. |
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Array of |
Conversion to Array type if supported by the configured driver, not supported otherwise. |
Arrays of primitive types, wrapper types and |
Array of wrapper type (e.g. |
Conversion to Array type if supported by the configured driver, not supported otherwise. |
Driver-specific types |
Passthru |
Contributed as a simple type by the used |
Complex objects |
Target type depends on registered |
Requires a Explicit Converters, not supported otherwise. |
The native data type for a column depends on the R2DBC driver type mapping. Drivers can contribute additional simple types such as Geometry types. |
16.4.2. Mapping Annotation Overview
The MappingR2dbcConverter
can use metadata to drive the mapping of objects to rows.
The following annotations are available:
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@Value
: This annotation is part of the Spring Framework. Within the mapping framework it can be applied to constructor arguments. This lets you use a Spring Expression Language statement to transform a key’s value retrieved in the database before it is used to construct a domain object. In order to reference a column of a given row one has to use expressions like:@Value("#root.myProperty")
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@Column
: Applied at the field level to describe the name of the column as it is represented in the row, letting the name be different from the field name of the class. Names specified with a@Column
annotation are always quoted when used in SQL statements. For most databases, this means that these names are case-sensitive. It also means that you can use special characters in these names. However, this is not recommended, since it may cause problems with other tools. -
@Version
: Applied at field level is used for optimistic locking and checked for modification on save operations. The value isnull
(zero
for primitive types) is considered as marker for entities to be new. The initially stored value iszero
(one
for primitive types). The version gets incremented automatically on every update. See Optimistic Locking for further reference.
The mapping metadata infrastructure is defined in the separate spring-data-commons
project that is technology-agnostic.
Specific subclasses are used in the R2DBC support to support annotation based metadata.
Other strategies can also be put in place (if there is demand).
16.4.3. Customized Object Construction
The mapping subsystem allows the customization of the object construction by annotating a constructor with the @PersistenceConstructor
annotation.The values to be used for the constructor parameters are resolved in the following way:
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@Value
annotation, the given expression is evaluated, and the result is used as the parameter value. -
If the Java type has a property whose name matches the given field of the input row, then its property information is used to select the appropriate constructor parameter to which to pass the input field value. This works only if the parameter name information is present in the Java
.class
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MappingException
is thrown to indicate that the given constructor parameter could not be bound.
class OrderItem {
private @Id final String id;
private final int quantity;
private final double unitPrice;
OrderItem(String id, int quantity, double unitPrice) {
this.id = id;
this.quantity = quantity;
this.unitPrice = unitPrice;
}
// getters/setters ommitted
}
16.4.4. Overriding Mapping with Explicit Converters
When storing and querying your objects, it is often convenient to have a R2dbcConverter
instance to handle the mapping of all Java types to OutboundRow
instances.
However, you may sometimes want the R2dbcConverter
instances to do most of the work but let you selectively handle the conversion for a particular type — perhaps to optimize performance.
To selectively handle the conversion yourself, register one or more one or more org.springframework.core.convert.converter.Converter
instances with the R2dbcConverter
.
You can use the r2dbcCustomConversions
method in AbstractR2dbcConfiguration
to configure converters.
The examples at the beginning of this chapter show how to perform the configuration with Java.
Custom top-level entity conversion requires asymmetric types for conversion.
Inbound data is extracted from R2DBC’s Row .
Outbound data (to be used with INSERT /UPDATE statements) is represented as OutboundRow and later assembled to a statement.
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The following example of a Spring Converter implementation converts from a Row
to a Person
POJO:
@ReadingConverter
public class PersonReadConverter implements Converter<Row, Person> {
public Person convert(Row source) {
Person p = new Person(source.get("id", String.class),source.get("name", String.class));
p.setAge(source.get("age", Integer.class));
return p;
}
}
Please note that converters get applied on singular properties.
Collection properties (e.g. Collection<Person>
) are iterated and converted element-wise.
Collection converters (e.g. Converter<List<Person>>, OutboundRow
) are not supported.
R2DBC uses boxed primitives (Integer.class instead of int.class ) to return primitive values.
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The following example converts from a Person
to a OutboundRow
:
@WritingConverter
public class PersonWriteConverter implements Converter<Person, OutboundRow> {
public OutboundRow convert(Person source) {
OutboundRow row = new OutboundRow();
row.put("id", SettableValue.from(source.getId()));
row.put("name", SettableValue.from(source.getFirstName()));
row.put("age", SettableValue.from(source.getAge()));
return row;
}
}
Overriding Enum Mapping with Explicit Converters
Some databases, such as Postgres, can natively write enum values using their database-specific enumerated column type.
Spring Data converts Enum
values by default to String
values for maximum portability.
To retain the actual enum value, register a @Writing
converter whose source and target types use the actual enum type to avoid using Enum.name()
conversion.
Additionally, you need to configure the enum type on the driver level so that the driver is aware how to represent the enum type.
The following example shows the involved components to read and write Color
enum values natively:
enum Color {
Grey, Blue
}
class ColorConverter extends EnumWriteSupport<Color> {
}
class Product {
@Id long id;
Color color;
// …
}
17. Kotlin Support
Kotlin is a statically typed language that targets the JVM (and other platforms) which allows writing concise and elegant code while providing excellent interoperability with existing libraries written in Java.
Spring Data provides first-class support for Kotlin and lets developers write Kotlin applications almost as if Spring Data was a Kotlin native framework.
The easiest way to build a Spring application with Kotlin is to leverage Spring Boot and its dedicated Kotlin support. This comprehensive tutorial will teach you how to build Spring Boot applications with Kotlin using start.spring.io.
17.1. Requirements
Spring Data supports Kotlin 1.3 and requires kotlin-stdlib
(or one of its variants, such as kotlin-stdlib-jdk8
) and kotlin-reflect
to be present on the classpath.
Those are provided by default if you bootstrap a Kotlin project via start.spring.io.
17.2. Null Safety
One of Kotlin’s key features is null safety, which cleanly deals with null
values at compile time.
This makes applications safer through nullability declarations and the expression of “value or no value” semantics without paying the cost of wrappers, such as Optional
.
(Kotlin allows using functional constructs with nullable values. See this comprehensive guide to Kotlin null safety.)
Although Java does not let you express null safety in its type system, Spring Data API is annotated with JSR-305 tooling friendly annotations declared in the org.springframework.lang
package.
By default, types from Java APIs used in Kotlin are recognized as platform types, for which null checks are relaxed.
Kotlin support for JSR-305 annotations and Spring nullability annotations provide null safety for the whole Spring Data API to Kotlin developers, with the advantage of dealing with null
related issues at compile time.
See Null Handling of Repository Methods how null safety applies to Spring Data Repositories.
You can configure JSR-305 checks by adding the For Kotlin versions 1.1+, the default behavior is the same as |
Generic type arguments, varargs, and array elements nullability are not supported yet, but should be in an upcoming release. |
17.3. Object Mapping
See Kotlin support for details on how Kotlin objects are materialized.
17.4. Extensions
Kotlin extensions provide the ability to extend existing classes with additional functionality. Spring Data Kotlin APIs use these extensions to add new Kotlin-specific conveniences to existing Spring APIs.
Keep in mind that Kotlin extensions need to be imported to be used. Similar to static imports, an IDE should automatically suggest the import in most cases. |
For example, Kotlin reified type parameters provide a workaround for JVM generics type erasure, and Spring Data provides some extensions to take advantage of this feature. This allows for a better Kotlin API.
To retrieve a list of SWCharacter
objects in Java, you would normally write the following:
Flux<SWCharacter> characters = client.select().from(SWCharacter.class).fetch().all();
With Kotlin and the Spring Data extensions, you can instead write the following:
val characters = client.select().from<SWCharacter>().fetch().all()
// or (both are equivalent)
val characters : Flux<SWCharacter> = client.select().from().fetch().all()
As in Java, characters
in Kotlin is strongly typed, but Kotlin’s clever type inference allows for shorter syntax.
Spring Data R2DBC provides the following extensions:
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DatabaseClient
andCriteria
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Coroutines extensions for
DatabaseClient
.
17.5. Coroutines
Kotlin Coroutines are lightweight threads allowing to write non-blocking code imperatively.
On language side, suspend
functions provides an abstraction for asynchronous operations while on library side kotlinx.coroutines provides functions like async { }
and types like Flow
.
Spring Data modules provide support for Coroutines on the following scope:
17.5.1. Dependencies
Coroutines support is enabled when kotlinx-coroutines-core
, kotlinx-coroutines-reactive
and kotlinx-coroutines-reactor
dependencies are in the classpath:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.jetbrains.kotlinx</groupId>
<artifactId>kotlinx-coroutines-core</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.jetbrains.kotlinx</groupId>
<artifactId>kotlinx-coroutines-reactive</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.jetbrains.kotlinx</groupId>
<artifactId>kotlinx-coroutines-reactor</artifactId>
</dependency>
Supported versions 1.3.0 and above.
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For return values, the translation from Reactive to Coroutines APIs is the following:
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fun handler(): Mono<Void>
becomessuspend fun handler()
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fun handler(): Mono<T>
becomessuspend fun handler(): T
orsuspend fun handler(): T?
depending on if theMono
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fun handler(): Flux<T>
becomesfun handler(): Flow<T>
Flow
is Flux
equivalent in Coroutines world, suitable for hot or cold stream, finite or infinite streams, with the following main differences:
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is push-based whileFlux
is push-pull hybrid -
Backpressure is implemented via suspending functions
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Flow
has only a single suspendingcollect
method and operators are implemented as extensions -
Operators are easy to implement thanks to Coroutines
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Extensions allow adding custom operators to
Flow
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Collect operations are suspending functions
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map
operator supports asynchronous operation (no need forflatMap
) since it takes a suspending function parameter
Read this blog post about Going Reactive with Spring, Coroutines and Kotlin Flow for more details, including how to run code concurrently with Coroutines.
17.5.3. Repositories
Here is an example of a Coroutines repository:
interface CoroutineRepository : CoroutineCrudRepository<User, String> {
suspend fun findOne(id: String): User
fun findByFirstname(firstname: String): Flow<User>
suspend fun findAllByFirstname(id: String): List<User>
}
Coroutines repositories are built on reactive repositories to expose the non-blocking nature of data access through Kotlin’s Coroutines.
Methods on a Coroutines repository can be backed either by a query method or a custom implementation.
Invoking a custom implementation method propagates the Coroutines invocation to the actual implementation method if the custom method is suspend
-able without requiring the implementation method to return a reactive type such as Mono
or Flux
.
Coroutines repositories are only discovered when the repository extends the CoroutineCrudRepository interface.
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Appendix A: Repository query keywords
Supported query method subject keywords
The following table lists the subject keywords generally supported by the Spring Data repository query derivation mechanism to express the predicate. Consult the store-specific documentation for the exact list of supported keywords, because some keywords listed here might not be supported in a particular store.
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The following table lists the predicate keywords generally supported by the Spring Data repository query derivation mechanism. However, consult the store-specific documentation for the exact list of supported keywords, because some keywords listed here might not be supported in a particular store.
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Supported Query Return Types
The following table lists the return types generally supported by Spring Data repositories. However, consult the store-specific documentation for the exact list of supported return types, because some types listed here might not be supported in a particular store.
Geospatial types (such as GeoResult , GeoResults , and GeoPage ) are available only for data stores that support geospatial queries.
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Appendix C: Migration Guide
The following sections explain how to migrate to a newer version of Spring Data R2DBC.
Upgrading from 1.1.x to 1.2.x
Spring Data R2DBC was developed with the intent to evaluate how well R2DBC can integrate with Spring applications.
One of the main aspects was to move core support into Spring Framework once R2DBC support has proven useful.
Spring Framework 5.3 ships with a new module: Spring R2DBC (spring-r2dbc
).
spring-r2dbc
ships core R2DBC functionality (a slim variant of DatabaseClient
, Transaction Manager, Connection Factory initialization, Exception translation) that was initially provided by Spring Data R2DBC.
The 1.2.0 release aligns with what’s provided in Spring R2DBC by making several changes outlined in the following sections.
Spring R2DBC’s DatabaseClient
is a more lightweight implementation that encapsulates a pure SQL-oriented interface.
You will notice that the method to run SQL statements changed from DatabaseClient.execute(…)
to DatabaseClient.sql(…)
.
The fluent API for CRUD operations has moved into R2dbcEntityTemplate
.
If you use logging of SQL statements through the logger prefix org.springframework.data.r2dbc
, make sure to update it to org.springframework.r2dbc
(that is removing .data
) to point to Spring R2DBC components.
Deprecations
-
Deprecation of
o.s.d.r2dbc.core.DatabaseClient
and its support classesConnectionAccessor
,FetchSpec
,SqlProvider
and a few more. Named parameter support classes such asNamedParameterExpander
are encapsulated by Spring R2DBC’sDatabaseClient
implementation hence we’re not providing replacements as this was internal API in the first place. Useo.s.r2dbc.core.DatabaseClient
and their Spring R2DBC replacements available fromorg.springframework.r2dbc.core
. Entity-based methods (select
/insert
/update
/delete
) methods are available throughR2dbcEntityTemplate
which was introduced with version 1.1. -
Deprecation of
o.s.d.r2dbc.connectionfactory
,o.s.d.r2dbc.connectionfactory.init
, ando.s.d.r2dbc.connectionfactory.lookup
packages. Use Spring R2DBC’s variant which you can find ato.s.r2dbc.connection
. -
Deprecation of
o.s.d.r2dbc.convert.ColumnMapRowMapper
. Useo.s.r2dbc.core.ColumnMapRowMapper
instead. -
Deprecation of binding support classes
o.s.d.r2dbc.dialect.Bindings
,BindMarker
,BindMarkers
,BindMarkersFactory
and related types. Use replacements fromorg.springframework.r2dbc.core.binding
. -
Deprecation of
BadSqlGrammarException
,UncategorizedR2dbcException
and exception translation ato.s.d.r2dbc.support
. Spring R2DBC provides a slim exception translation variant without an SPI for now available througho.s.r2dbc.connection.ConnectionFactoryUtils#convertR2dbcException
.
Usage of replacements provided by Spring R2DBC
To ease migration, several deprecated types are now subtypes of their replacements provided by Spring R2DBC. Spring Data R2DBC has changes several methods or introduced new methods accepting Spring R2DBC types. Specifically the following classes are changed:
-
R2dbcEntityTemplate
-
R2dbcDialect
-
Types in
org.springframework.data.r2dbc.query
We recommend that you review and update your imports if you work with these types directly.
Breaking Changes
-
OutboundRow
and statement mappers switched from usingSettableValue
toParameter
-
Repository factory support requires
o.s.r2dbc.core.DatabaseClient
instead ofo.s.data.r2dbc.core.DatabaseClient
.