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What should be the best way to design a DAO class ?
Approach#1: Design DAO class as an object.
class Customer {
//customer class
}
class CustomerDAO {
public void saveCustomer(Customer customer) {
//code
}
public Customer getCustomer(int id) {
//code
}
}
//Client code
class client {
public static void main(String[] args) {
CustomerDAO customerDAO = new CustomerDAO();
Customer customer = new Customer();
customerDAO.saveCustomer(customer);
}
}
Approach#2: Design DAO class with static methods (aka static class)
class Customer {
//customer class
}
class CustomerDAO {
public static void saveCustomer(Customer customer) {
//code
}
public static Customer getCustomer(int id) {
//code
}
}
//Client code
class client {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Customer customer = new Customer();
CustomerDAO.saveCustomer(customer);
}
}
In approach#1, I have to create an object of DAO class in all the client code (other option is to pass the reference of DAO all around). while in approach#2, I do not have to create the object and the static methods can be designed with no state tracking.
So which approach is the best in design of DAO classes ?
I would recommend approach #1, but would use Spring for dependency injection rather than instantiating DAOs directly.
This way, for unit testing the client code, you can substitue mock DAOs, and verify that the correct DAOs are invoked with the appropriate arguments. (Mockito is useful here.)
If you use static methods, then unit testing is much more difficult, since static methods cannot be overridden.
To have more abstraction :
interface IDAO<T> {
public save(T t);
public T getById(int id);
//...etc
}
then
public CustomerDao implements IDAO<Customer>{
public save(Customer c){
//Code here
}
public Customer getById(int id){
//Code here
}
}
and DAO tO another domain
public UniversityDao implements IDAO<University>{
public save(University u){
//Code here
}
public University getById(int id){
//Code here
}
}
Now the presentation layer or the main Class will contain the code like this :
IDAO dao;
dao=new CustomerDao();
//...
dao=new UniversityDao();
I would go for option 1 as well but I would also recommend you to program to interfaces. Create an interface that sets which functions the DAO has to provide and then you can implement those with different classes depending on your needs.
public interface CustomerDao {
public void saveCustomer(Customer customer);
public Customer getCustomer(int id);
}
Then you can have class SimpleCustomerDao implements CustomerDAO {/*code here*/}.
In your main (and everywhere else you need it) you'll have:
//Note that you have an interface variable and a real class object
CustomerDao customerDao = new SimpleCustomerDao();
You can figure out the benefits of doing this!
And yes, if you use Spring or Guice then do use Dependency Injection!
Refer to article how to write a generic DAO (using Spring AOP):
Don't repeat the DAO!
You can find examples of generic DAO implementations for your technology stack (just google "Don't repeat the DAO my_technology").
I would Prefer the Layered Approach, and What This approach simply tell us is:
You are having your model class Customer
You are having a contract with client through Interface CustomerDAO
public interface CustomerDAO{
public void saveCustomer(Customer customer);
public Customer getCustomer(int id);
}
You are having a concrete Implementation like CustomerDAOImpl
public class CustomerDAOImpl extends CustomerDAO{
public void saveCustomer(Customer customer){
saveCustomer(customer);
}
public Customer getCustomer(int id){
return fetchCustomer(id);
}
}
Then Write a Manager to Manage these or Encapsulating some other DAOs like:
public class ManagerImpl extends Manager{
CustomerDAO customerDAOObj;
// maybe you need to collect
// all the customer related activities here in manger
// because Client must not bother about those things.
UserBillingDAO userBillingDAOObj;
public void saveCustomer(Customer customer){
customerDAOObj.saveCustomer(customer);
}
public Customer getCustomer(int id){
return customerDAOObj.fetchCustomer(id);
}
// Note this extra method which is defined in
//UserBillingDAO which I have not shown, but you are exposing
//this method to your Client or the Presentation layer.
public boolean doBillingOFCustomer(id) {
return userBillingDAOObj.doBilling(id);
}
}
Now the presentation layer or the main Class will contain the code like this:
public static void main(String... ar){
Manager manager = new ManagerImpl();
manager.saveCustomer();
// or manager.doBillingOfCustomer(); // etc
}
Related
I am looking into Spring Data JPA. Consider the below example where I will get all the crud and finder functionality working by default and if I want to customize a finder then that can be also done easily in the interface itself.
#Transactional(readOnly = true)
public interface AccountRepository extends JpaRepository<Account, Long> {
#Query("<JPQ statement here>")
List<Account> findByCustomer(Customer customer);
}
I would like to know how can I add a complete custom method with its implementation for the above AccountRepository? Since its an Interface I cannot implement the method there.
You need to create a separate interface for your custom methods:
public interface AccountRepository
extends JpaRepository<Account, Long>, AccountRepositoryCustom { ... }
public interface AccountRepositoryCustom {
public void customMethod();
}
and provide an implementation class for that interface:
public class AccountRepositoryImpl implements AccountRepositoryCustom {
#Autowired
#Lazy
AccountRepository accountRepository; /* Optional - if you need it */
public void customMethod() { ... }
}
See also:
4.6 Custom Implementations for Spring Data Repositories
Note that the naming scheme has changed between versions. See https://stackoverflow.com/a/52624752/66686 for details.
In addition to axtavt's answer, don't forget you can inject Entity Manager in your custom implementation if you need it to build your queries:
public class AccountRepositoryImpl implements AccountRepositoryCustom {
#PersistenceContext
private EntityManager em;
public void customMethod() {
...
em.createQuery(yourCriteria);
...
}
}
There's a slightly modified solution that does not require additional interfaces.
As specificed in the documented functionality, the Impl suffix allows us to have such clean solution:
Define in you regular #Repository interface, say MyEntityRepository the custom methods (in addition to your Spring Data methods)
Create a class MyEntityRepositoryImpl (the Impl suffix is the magic) anywhere (doesn't even need to be in the same package) that implements the custom methods only and annotate such class with #Component** (#Repository will not work).
This class can even inject MyEntityRepository via #Autowired for use in the custom methods.
Example:
Entity class (for completeness):
package myapp.domain.myentity;
#Entity
public class MyEntity {
#Id private Long id;
#Column private String comment;
}
Repository interface:
package myapp.domain.myentity;
#Repository
public interface MyEntityRepository extends JpaRepository<MyEntity, Long> {
// EXAMPLE SPRING DATA METHOD
List<MyEntity> findByCommentEndsWith(String x);
List<MyEntity> doSomeHql(Long id); // custom method, code at *Impl class below
List<MyEntity> useTheRepo(Long id); // custom method, code at *Impl class below
}
Custom methods implementation bean:
package myapp.infrastructure.myentity;
#Component // Must be #Component !!
public class MyEntityRepositoryImpl { // must have the exact repo name + Impl !!
#PersistenceContext
private EntityManager entityManager;
#Autowired
private MyEntityRepository myEntityRepository;
#SuppressWarnings("unused")
public List<MyEntity> doSomeHql(Long id) {
String hql = "SELECT eFROM MyEntity e WHERE e.id = :id";
TypedQuery<MyEntity> query = entityManager.createQuery(hql, MyEntity.class);
query.setParameter("id", id);
return query.getResultList();
}
#SuppressWarnings("unused")
public List<MyEntity> useTheRepo(Long id) {
List<MyEntity> es = doSomeHql(id);
es.addAll(myEntityRepository.findByCommentEndsWith("DO"));
es.add(myEntityRepository.findById(2L).get());
return es;
}
}
Usage:
// You just autowire the the MyEntityRepository as usual
// (the Impl class is just impl detail, the clients don't even know about it)
#Service
public class SomeService {
#Autowired
private MyEntityRepository myEntityRepository;
public void someMethod(String x, long y) {
// call any method as usual
myEntityRepository.findByCommentEndsWith(x);
myEntityRepository.doSomeHql(y);
}
}
And that's all, no need for any interfaces other than the Spring Data repo one you already have.
The only possible drawbacks I identified are:
The custom methods in the Impl class are marked as unused by the compiler, thus the #SuppressWarnings("unused") suggestion.
You have a limit of one Impl class. (Whereas in the regular fragment interfaces implementation the docs suggest you could have many.)
If you place the Impl class at a different package and your test uses only #DataJpaTest, you have to add #ComponentScan("package.of.the.impl.clazz") to your test, so Spring loads it.
The accepted answer works, but has three problems:
It uses an undocumented Spring Data feature when naming the custom implementation as AccountRepositoryImpl. The documentation clearly states that it has to be called AccountRepositoryCustomImpl, the custom interface name plus Impl
You cannot use constructor injection, only #Autowired, that are considered bad practice
You have a circular dependency inside of the custom implementation (that's why you cannot use constructor injection).
I found a way to make it perfect, though not without using another undocumented Spring Data feature:
public interface AccountRepository extends AccountRepositoryBasic,
AccountRepositoryCustom
{
}
public interface AccountRepositoryBasic extends JpaRepository<Account, Long>
{
// standard Spring Data methods, like findByLogin
}
public interface AccountRepositoryCustom
{
public void customMethod();
}
public class AccountRepositoryCustomImpl implements AccountRepositoryCustom
{
private final AccountRepositoryBasic accountRepositoryBasic;
// constructor-based injection
public AccountRepositoryCustomImpl(
AccountRepositoryBasic accountRepositoryBasic)
{
this.accountRepositoryBasic = accountRepositoryBasic;
}
public void customMethod()
{
// we can call all basic Spring Data methods using
// accountRepositoryBasic
}
}
This is limited in usage, but for simple custom methods you can use default interface methods like:
import demo.database.Customer;
import org.springframework.data.repository.CrudRepository;
public interface CustomerService extends CrudRepository<Customer, Long> {
default void addSomeCustomers() {
Customer[] customers = {
new Customer("Józef", "Nowak", "nowakJ#o2.pl", 679856885, "Rzeszów", "Podkarpackie", "35-061", "Zamknięta 12"),
new Customer("Adrian", "Mularczyk", "adii333#wp.pl", 867569344, "Krosno", "Podkarpackie", "32-442", "Hynka 3/16"),
new Customer("Kazimierz", "Dejna", "sobieski22#weebly.com", 996435876, "Jarosław", "Podkarpackie", "25-122", "Korotyńskiego 11"),
new Customer("Celina", "Dykiel", "celina.dykiel39#yahoo.org", 947845734, "Żywiec", "Śląskie", "54-333", "Polna 29")
};
for (Customer customer : customers) {
save(customer);
}
}
}
EDIT:
In this spring tutorial it is written:
Spring Data JPA also allows you to define other query methods by
simply declaring their method signature.
So it is even possible to just declare method like:
Customer findByHobby(Hobby personHobby);
and if object Hobby is a property of Customer then Spring will automatically define method for you.
Im using the following code in order to access generated find methods from my custom implementation. Getting the implementation through the bean factory prevents circular bean creation problems.
public class MyRepositoryImpl implements MyRepositoryExtensions, BeanFactoryAware {
private BrandRepository myRepository;
public MyBean findOne(int first, int second) {
return myRepository.findOne(new Id(first, second));
}
public void setBeanFactory(BeanFactory beanFactory) throws BeansException {
myRepository = beanFactory.getBean(MyRepository.class);
}
}
Considering your code snippet, please note that you can only pass Native objects to the findBy### method, lets say you want to load a list of accounts that belongs certain costumers, one solution is to do this,
#Query("Select a from Account a where a."#nameoffield"=?1")
List<Account> findByCustomer(String "#nameoffield");
Make sue the name of the table to be queried is thesame as the Entity class.
For further implementations please take a look at this
If you want to be able to do more sophisticated operations you might need access to Spring Data's internals, in which case the following works (as my interim solution to DATAJPA-422):
public class AccountRepositoryImpl implements AccountRepositoryCustom {
#PersistenceContext
private EntityManager entityManager;
private JpaEntityInformation<Account, ?> entityInformation;
#PostConstruct
public void postConstruct() {
this.entityInformation = JpaEntityInformationSupport.getMetadata(Account.class, entityManager);
}
#Override
#Transactional
public Account saveWithReferenceToOrganisation(Account entity, long organisationId) {
entity.setOrganisation(entityManager.getReference(Organisation.class, organisationId));
return save(entity);
}
private Account save(Account entity) {
// save in same way as SimpleJpaRepository
if (entityInformation.isNew(entity)) {
entityManager.persist(entity);
return entity;
} else {
return entityManager.merge(entity);
}
}
}
There is another issue to be considered here. Some people expect that adding custom method to your repository will automatically expose them as REST services under '/search' link. This is unfortunately not the case. Spring doesn't support that currently.
This is 'by design' feature, spring data rest explicitly checks if method is a custom method and doesn't expose it as a REST search link:
private boolean isQueryMethodCandidate(Method method) {
return isQueryAnnotationPresentOn(method) || !isCustomMethod(method) && !isBaseClassMethod(method);
}
This is a qoute of Oliver Gierke:
This is by design. Custom repository methods are no query methods as
they can effectively implement any behavior. Thus, it's currently
impossible for us to decide about the HTTP method to expose the method
under. POST would be the safest option but that's not in line with the
generic query methods (which receive GET).
For more details see this issue: https://jira.spring.io/browse/DATAREST-206
I liked Danila's solution and started using it but nobody else on the team liked having to create 4 classes for each repository. Danila's solution is the only one here that let's you use the Spring Data methods in the Impl class. However, I found a way to do it with just a single class:
public interface UserRepository extends MongoAccess, PagingAndSortingRepository<User> {
List<User> getByUsername(String username);
default List<User> getByUsernameCustom(String username) {
// Can call Spring Data methods!
findAll();
// Can write your own!
MongoOperations operations = getMongoOperations();
return operations.find(new Query(Criteria.where("username").is(username)), User.class);
}
}
You just need some way of getting access to your db bean (in this example, MongoOperations). MongoAccess provides that access to all of your repositories by retrieving the bean directly:
public interface MongoAccess {
default MongoOperations getMongoOperations() {
return BeanAccessor.getSingleton(MongoOperations.class);
}
}
Where BeanAccessor is:
#Component
public class BeanAccessor implements ApplicationContextAware {
private static ApplicationContext applicationContext;
public static <T> T getSingleton(Class<T> clazz){
return applicationContext.getBean(clazz);
}
public static <T> T getSingleton(String beanName, Class<T> clazz){
return applicationContext.getBean(beanName, clazz);
}
#Override
public void setApplicationContext(ApplicationContext applicationContext) throws BeansException {
BeanAccessor.applicationContext = applicationContext;
}
}
Unfortunately, you can't #Autowire in an interface. You could autowire the bean into a MongoAccessImpl and provide a method in the interface to access it, but Spring Data blows up. I don't think it expects to see an Impl associated even indirectly with PagingAndSortingRepository.
I faced with this using mongo and spring. So let's assume we use MongoRepository to provided base crud operations, and let's say we need to implement some custom criteria query operation using mongoTemplate. To achieve one interface to inject repository for crud and custom we need to specify:
Custom interface:
public interface UserCustomRepository {
List<User> findAllUsersBySomeCriteria(UserCriteriaRequest criteriaRequest);
}
UserRepository interface 'must' first extends UserCustomRepository and then MongoRepository
#Repository
public interface UserRepository extends UserCustomRepository, MongoRepository<User, ObjectId> {
}
UserRepositoryImpl must have the same name as what crud interface with *Impl suffix.
#Component
#NoArgsConstructor
#AllArgsConstructor(onConstructor = #__(#Autowired))
public class UserRepositoryImpl implements UserCustomRepository {
private MongoTemplate mongoTemplate;
#Override
public List<User> findAllUsersBySomeCriteria(UserCriteriaRequest criteriaRequest){
//some impl
}
}
Let's impl some service - here we inject only UserRepository interface and use methods from crud repository and custom class impl.
#Service
#NoArgsConstructor
#AllArgsConstructor(onConstructor = #__(#Autowired))
public class UserService {
private UserRepository userReposityry;
public List<User> getUserByCriteria(UserCriteriaRequest request) {
userRepository.findById(request.getUserId); // Crud repository method
userRepository.findAllUsersBySomeCriteria(request); // custom method.
}
}
I extends the SimpleJpaRepository:
public class ExtendedRepositoryImpl<T extends EntityBean> extends SimpleJpaRepository<T, Long>
implements ExtendedRepository<T> {
private final JpaEntityInformation<T, ?> entityInformation;
private final EntityManager em;
public ExtendedRepositoryImpl(final JpaEntityInformation<T, ?> entityInformation,
final EntityManager entityManager) {
super(entityInformation, entityManager);
this.entityInformation = entityInformation;
this.em = entityManager;
}
}
and adds this class to #EnableJpaRepositoryries repositoryBaseClass.
I use SimpleJpaRepository as the base class of repository implementation and add custom method in the interface,eg:
public interface UserRepository {
User FindOrInsert(int userId);
}
#Repository
public class UserRepositoryImpl extends SimpleJpaRepository implements UserRepository {
private RedisClient redisClient;
public UserRepositoryImpl(RedisClient redisClient, EntityManager em) {
super(User.class, em);
this.redisClient = redisClient;
}
#Override
public User FindOrInsert(int userId) {
User u = redisClient.getOrSet("test key.. User.class, () -> {
Optional<User> ou = this.findById(Integer.valueOf(userId));
return ou.get();
});
…………
return u;
}
I need to implement the same sequence of commands in a service, but operating on several different database objects, depending on a case. I'm wondering whether it is a good practice to use an inheritance in such case - which would consist in passing a different dao in a specifc class's constructor only. Something like this:
public abstract class Service{
private Dao dao;
public Service(Dao dao){
this.dao = dao;
}
public void mainMethod(){
dao.step1();
subMethod();
dao.step2();
}
public void subMethod(){
//...
}
}
public class ServiceImpl1 extends Service{
public ServiceImpl1(DaoImpl1 daoImpl1){
super(daoImpl1);
}
}
Inheritance is useful for delegating messages (method calls) to the superclass with few changes. You're not delegating messages to the parent class though, you're changing the parameter of the constructor. So there is no need to inherit anything.
This is fine:
public class Service{
private Dao dao;
public Service(Dao dao){
this.dao = dao;
}
public void mainMethod(){
dao.step1();
subMethod();
dao.step2();
}
public void subMethod(){
//...
}
}
You can then make instances like
Service posgresService = new Service(new PosgresDao());
Service redisService = new Service(new RedisDao());
See depenency injection for more details
I think that if -sequence of commands- refers to the exact same commands, I think you should create overloaded methods such as: if not, inheritance would be a good choice in order to keep orden in the code.
Since you are talking about inheritance and from the sample code provide, it seems like there will be one ServiceImpl class for each DaoImpl class. It will work, however you could also settle with a single ServiceImpl class for all Dao classes:
public class ServiceImpl implements Service {
public void mainMethod(Dao dao) {
dao.step1();
subMethod();
dao.step2();
}
public void subMethod() {
// ...
}
}
elsewhere
Service service = new ServiceImpl();
// ...
Dao dao1 = new DaoImpl1();
Dao dao2 = new DaoImpl2();
// ...
service.mainMethod(dao1);
service.mainMethod(dao2);
I have a class
EntiyFacadeImpl.java
#Stateless
public class EntityFacadeImpl implements EntityFacade {
#EJB
ICustomerBean customerBean;
public void printCustomer(Customer c) {
customerBean.printCustomer(c);
customerBean.additionalFieldsHandler(c.getAdditionalFields().toString());
}
}
Where ICustomerBean is #Local interface and have two implementation classes CustomerBean.java and CustomerBeanExt.java where later one extends CustomerBean.java
#Stateless(name = "CustomerBean")
public class CustomerBean implements ICustomerBean {
public void printCustomer(Customer customer) {
System.out.println(customer);
}
public void additionalFieldsHandler(String additionalFields) {
// an empty implemetation here
}
}
#Stateless(name = "CustomerExtBean")
public class CustomerExtBean extends CustomerBean implements ICustomerBean {
#Override
public void additionalFieldsHandler(String additionalFields) {
// some custom implemetation
System.out.println("Additional Fields: "+additionalFields);
}
}
ICustomer interface looks like this
#Local
public interface ICustomerBean {
public void printCustomer(Customer c);
public void additionalFieldsHandler(String additionalFields);
}
My aim is that whenever I inject my EntityFacade (interface for EntityFacadeImpl) in SimpleRESTPojo.java only, I want CustomerExtBean to be inject in it, while when any other class injects it I want CustomerBean to be injected
#Path("/pojo")
public class SimpleRESTPojo {
#EJB
private EntityFacade entityFacade;
}
My app's entry point is EntityFacade only. Is there a way to achieve this?
Actually, after reading your question, it looks like you're trying to introduce tight coupling. CDI doesn't make EntityFacade aware of where it was injected in to. I don't see a way to do this.
What you could do is create an extended version of EntityFacade that used this injection point:
#Inject
#Extended //or whatever qualifier you come up with
private ICustomerBean customerBean;
and then use that same qualifier on the extended EntityFacade.
I'm implementing basic CRUD for REST service based on DAO injected via CDI.
It's gonna work with multiple injections and I wanna pass the type of DAO from class that extends GenericRest.
I followed this tutorial.
http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2013/06/java-ee-cdi-programmatic-dependency-disambiguation-example-injection-point-inspection.html
And get workable code:
GenericREST.java
public abstract class GenericREST {
#Inject
#DAOProducer
#DAOType(DAO.COMMENT)
private GenericDAO dao;
...
}
GenericDAO.java
public interface GenericDAO<T, PK extends Serializable> {
public T create(T t);
public T read(final PK id);
public T update(T t);
public void delete(final PK id);
}
It works well when I'm setting #DAOType as described above.
But I wanna somehow select DAO by passing its' type from extended class.
Is there any way of doing it? Or maybe there is much easier way?
Assuming you use CDI instances, you can do something like this:
#Inject
#DAOProducer
private Instance<GenericDAO<?,?>> genericDaoInst;
protected GenericDAO<?,?> getDao(DAO dao) {
return genericDaoInst.select(new DAOTypeLiteral(dao)).get();
}
then somewhere in your code...
GenericDAO<?,?> dao = getDao(DAO.COMMENT);
I am looking into Spring Data JPA. Consider the below example where I will get all the crud and finder functionality working by default and if I want to customize a finder then that can be also done easily in the interface itself.
#Transactional(readOnly = true)
public interface AccountRepository extends JpaRepository<Account, Long> {
#Query("<JPQ statement here>")
List<Account> findByCustomer(Customer customer);
}
I would like to know how can I add a complete custom method with its implementation for the above AccountRepository? Since its an Interface I cannot implement the method there.
You need to create a separate interface for your custom methods:
public interface AccountRepository
extends JpaRepository<Account, Long>, AccountRepositoryCustom { ... }
public interface AccountRepositoryCustom {
public void customMethod();
}
and provide an implementation class for that interface:
public class AccountRepositoryImpl implements AccountRepositoryCustom {
#Autowired
#Lazy
AccountRepository accountRepository; /* Optional - if you need it */
public void customMethod() { ... }
}
See also:
4.6 Custom Implementations for Spring Data Repositories
Note that the naming scheme has changed between versions. See https://stackoverflow.com/a/52624752/66686 for details.
In addition to axtavt's answer, don't forget you can inject Entity Manager in your custom implementation if you need it to build your queries:
public class AccountRepositoryImpl implements AccountRepositoryCustom {
#PersistenceContext
private EntityManager em;
public void customMethod() {
...
em.createQuery(yourCriteria);
...
}
}
There's a slightly modified solution that does not require additional interfaces.
As specificed in the documented functionality, the Impl suffix allows us to have such clean solution:
Define in you regular #Repository interface, say MyEntityRepository the custom methods (in addition to your Spring Data methods)
Create a class MyEntityRepositoryImpl (the Impl suffix is the magic) anywhere (doesn't even need to be in the same package) that implements the custom methods only and annotate such class with #Component** (#Repository will not work).
This class can even inject MyEntityRepository via #Autowired for use in the custom methods.
Example:
Entity class (for completeness):
package myapp.domain.myentity;
#Entity
public class MyEntity {
#Id private Long id;
#Column private String comment;
}
Repository interface:
package myapp.domain.myentity;
#Repository
public interface MyEntityRepository extends JpaRepository<MyEntity, Long> {
// EXAMPLE SPRING DATA METHOD
List<MyEntity> findByCommentEndsWith(String x);
List<MyEntity> doSomeHql(Long id); // custom method, code at *Impl class below
List<MyEntity> useTheRepo(Long id); // custom method, code at *Impl class below
}
Custom methods implementation bean:
package myapp.infrastructure.myentity;
#Component // Must be #Component !!
public class MyEntityRepositoryImpl { // must have the exact repo name + Impl !!
#PersistenceContext
private EntityManager entityManager;
#Autowired
private MyEntityRepository myEntityRepository;
#SuppressWarnings("unused")
public List<MyEntity> doSomeHql(Long id) {
String hql = "SELECT eFROM MyEntity e WHERE e.id = :id";
TypedQuery<MyEntity> query = entityManager.createQuery(hql, MyEntity.class);
query.setParameter("id", id);
return query.getResultList();
}
#SuppressWarnings("unused")
public List<MyEntity> useTheRepo(Long id) {
List<MyEntity> es = doSomeHql(id);
es.addAll(myEntityRepository.findByCommentEndsWith("DO"));
es.add(myEntityRepository.findById(2L).get());
return es;
}
}
Usage:
// You just autowire the the MyEntityRepository as usual
// (the Impl class is just impl detail, the clients don't even know about it)
#Service
public class SomeService {
#Autowired
private MyEntityRepository myEntityRepository;
public void someMethod(String x, long y) {
// call any method as usual
myEntityRepository.findByCommentEndsWith(x);
myEntityRepository.doSomeHql(y);
}
}
And that's all, no need for any interfaces other than the Spring Data repo one you already have.
The only possible drawbacks I identified are:
The custom methods in the Impl class are marked as unused by the compiler, thus the #SuppressWarnings("unused") suggestion.
You have a limit of one Impl class. (Whereas in the regular fragment interfaces implementation the docs suggest you could have many.)
If you place the Impl class at a different package and your test uses only #DataJpaTest, you have to add #ComponentScan("package.of.the.impl.clazz") to your test, so Spring loads it.
The accepted answer works, but has three problems:
It uses an undocumented Spring Data feature when naming the custom implementation as AccountRepositoryImpl. The documentation clearly states that it has to be called AccountRepositoryCustomImpl, the custom interface name plus Impl
You cannot use constructor injection, only #Autowired, that are considered bad practice
You have a circular dependency inside of the custom implementation (that's why you cannot use constructor injection).
I found a way to make it perfect, though not without using another undocumented Spring Data feature:
public interface AccountRepository extends AccountRepositoryBasic,
AccountRepositoryCustom
{
}
public interface AccountRepositoryBasic extends JpaRepository<Account, Long>
{
// standard Spring Data methods, like findByLogin
}
public interface AccountRepositoryCustom
{
public void customMethod();
}
public class AccountRepositoryCustomImpl implements AccountRepositoryCustom
{
private final AccountRepositoryBasic accountRepositoryBasic;
// constructor-based injection
public AccountRepositoryCustomImpl(
AccountRepositoryBasic accountRepositoryBasic)
{
this.accountRepositoryBasic = accountRepositoryBasic;
}
public void customMethod()
{
// we can call all basic Spring Data methods using
// accountRepositoryBasic
}
}
This is limited in usage, but for simple custom methods you can use default interface methods like:
import demo.database.Customer;
import org.springframework.data.repository.CrudRepository;
public interface CustomerService extends CrudRepository<Customer, Long> {
default void addSomeCustomers() {
Customer[] customers = {
new Customer("Józef", "Nowak", "nowakJ#o2.pl", 679856885, "Rzeszów", "Podkarpackie", "35-061", "Zamknięta 12"),
new Customer("Adrian", "Mularczyk", "adii333#wp.pl", 867569344, "Krosno", "Podkarpackie", "32-442", "Hynka 3/16"),
new Customer("Kazimierz", "Dejna", "sobieski22#weebly.com", 996435876, "Jarosław", "Podkarpackie", "25-122", "Korotyńskiego 11"),
new Customer("Celina", "Dykiel", "celina.dykiel39#yahoo.org", 947845734, "Żywiec", "Śląskie", "54-333", "Polna 29")
};
for (Customer customer : customers) {
save(customer);
}
}
}
EDIT:
In this spring tutorial it is written:
Spring Data JPA also allows you to define other query methods by
simply declaring their method signature.
So it is even possible to just declare method like:
Customer findByHobby(Hobby personHobby);
and if object Hobby is a property of Customer then Spring will automatically define method for you.
Im using the following code in order to access generated find methods from my custom implementation. Getting the implementation through the bean factory prevents circular bean creation problems.
public class MyRepositoryImpl implements MyRepositoryExtensions, BeanFactoryAware {
private BrandRepository myRepository;
public MyBean findOne(int first, int second) {
return myRepository.findOne(new Id(first, second));
}
public void setBeanFactory(BeanFactory beanFactory) throws BeansException {
myRepository = beanFactory.getBean(MyRepository.class);
}
}
Considering your code snippet, please note that you can only pass Native objects to the findBy### method, lets say you want to load a list of accounts that belongs certain costumers, one solution is to do this,
#Query("Select a from Account a where a."#nameoffield"=?1")
List<Account> findByCustomer(String "#nameoffield");
Make sue the name of the table to be queried is thesame as the Entity class.
For further implementations please take a look at this
If you want to be able to do more sophisticated operations you might need access to Spring Data's internals, in which case the following works (as my interim solution to DATAJPA-422):
public class AccountRepositoryImpl implements AccountRepositoryCustom {
#PersistenceContext
private EntityManager entityManager;
private JpaEntityInformation<Account, ?> entityInformation;
#PostConstruct
public void postConstruct() {
this.entityInformation = JpaEntityInformationSupport.getMetadata(Account.class, entityManager);
}
#Override
#Transactional
public Account saveWithReferenceToOrganisation(Account entity, long organisationId) {
entity.setOrganisation(entityManager.getReference(Organisation.class, organisationId));
return save(entity);
}
private Account save(Account entity) {
// save in same way as SimpleJpaRepository
if (entityInformation.isNew(entity)) {
entityManager.persist(entity);
return entity;
} else {
return entityManager.merge(entity);
}
}
}
There is another issue to be considered here. Some people expect that adding custom method to your repository will automatically expose them as REST services under '/search' link. This is unfortunately not the case. Spring doesn't support that currently.
This is 'by design' feature, spring data rest explicitly checks if method is a custom method and doesn't expose it as a REST search link:
private boolean isQueryMethodCandidate(Method method) {
return isQueryAnnotationPresentOn(method) || !isCustomMethod(method) && !isBaseClassMethod(method);
}
This is a qoute of Oliver Gierke:
This is by design. Custom repository methods are no query methods as
they can effectively implement any behavior. Thus, it's currently
impossible for us to decide about the HTTP method to expose the method
under. POST would be the safest option but that's not in line with the
generic query methods (which receive GET).
For more details see this issue: https://jira.spring.io/browse/DATAREST-206
I liked Danila's solution and started using it but nobody else on the team liked having to create 4 classes for each repository. Danila's solution is the only one here that let's you use the Spring Data methods in the Impl class. However, I found a way to do it with just a single class:
public interface UserRepository extends MongoAccess, PagingAndSortingRepository<User> {
List<User> getByUsername(String username);
default List<User> getByUsernameCustom(String username) {
// Can call Spring Data methods!
findAll();
// Can write your own!
MongoOperations operations = getMongoOperations();
return operations.find(new Query(Criteria.where("username").is(username)), User.class);
}
}
You just need some way of getting access to your db bean (in this example, MongoOperations). MongoAccess provides that access to all of your repositories by retrieving the bean directly:
public interface MongoAccess {
default MongoOperations getMongoOperations() {
return BeanAccessor.getSingleton(MongoOperations.class);
}
}
Where BeanAccessor is:
#Component
public class BeanAccessor implements ApplicationContextAware {
private static ApplicationContext applicationContext;
public static <T> T getSingleton(Class<T> clazz){
return applicationContext.getBean(clazz);
}
public static <T> T getSingleton(String beanName, Class<T> clazz){
return applicationContext.getBean(beanName, clazz);
}
#Override
public void setApplicationContext(ApplicationContext applicationContext) throws BeansException {
BeanAccessor.applicationContext = applicationContext;
}
}
Unfortunately, you can't #Autowire in an interface. You could autowire the bean into a MongoAccessImpl and provide a method in the interface to access it, but Spring Data blows up. I don't think it expects to see an Impl associated even indirectly with PagingAndSortingRepository.
I faced with this using mongo and spring. So let's assume we use MongoRepository to provided base crud operations, and let's say we need to implement some custom criteria query operation using mongoTemplate. To achieve one interface to inject repository for crud and custom we need to specify:
Custom interface:
public interface UserCustomRepository {
List<User> findAllUsersBySomeCriteria(UserCriteriaRequest criteriaRequest);
}
UserRepository interface 'must' first extends UserCustomRepository and then MongoRepository
#Repository
public interface UserRepository extends UserCustomRepository, MongoRepository<User, ObjectId> {
}
UserRepositoryImpl must have the same name as what crud interface with *Impl suffix.
#Component
#NoArgsConstructor
#AllArgsConstructor(onConstructor = #__(#Autowired))
public class UserRepositoryImpl implements UserCustomRepository {
private MongoTemplate mongoTemplate;
#Override
public List<User> findAllUsersBySomeCriteria(UserCriteriaRequest criteriaRequest){
//some impl
}
}
Let's impl some service - here we inject only UserRepository interface and use methods from crud repository and custom class impl.
#Service
#NoArgsConstructor
#AllArgsConstructor(onConstructor = #__(#Autowired))
public class UserService {
private UserRepository userReposityry;
public List<User> getUserByCriteria(UserCriteriaRequest request) {
userRepository.findById(request.getUserId); // Crud repository method
userRepository.findAllUsersBySomeCriteria(request); // custom method.
}
}
I extends the SimpleJpaRepository:
public class ExtendedRepositoryImpl<T extends EntityBean> extends SimpleJpaRepository<T, Long>
implements ExtendedRepository<T> {
private final JpaEntityInformation<T, ?> entityInformation;
private final EntityManager em;
public ExtendedRepositoryImpl(final JpaEntityInformation<T, ?> entityInformation,
final EntityManager entityManager) {
super(entityInformation, entityManager);
this.entityInformation = entityInformation;
this.em = entityManager;
}
}
and adds this class to #EnableJpaRepositoryries repositoryBaseClass.
I use SimpleJpaRepository as the base class of repository implementation and add custom method in the interface,eg:
public interface UserRepository {
User FindOrInsert(int userId);
}
#Repository
public class UserRepositoryImpl extends SimpleJpaRepository implements UserRepository {
private RedisClient redisClient;
public UserRepositoryImpl(RedisClient redisClient, EntityManager em) {
super(User.class, em);
this.redisClient = redisClient;
}
#Override
public User FindOrInsert(int userId) {
User u = redisClient.getOrSet("test key.. User.class, () -> {
Optional<User> ou = this.findById(Integer.valueOf(userId));
return ou.get();
});
…………
return u;
}