Adding Hibernate Entity Level Filtering feature to Spring Data JPA Repository
Those who have used data filtering features of hibernate should know that it is very powerful. You could define a set of filtering criteria to an entity class or a collection. Spring data JPA is a very handy library but it does not have fitering features. In this post, I will demonstrate how to add the hibernate filter features at entity level. We can just use annotation in your repositoy interface to enable this features. Step 1. Define filter at entity level as usual. Just use hibernate @FilterDef annotation. @Entity @Table(name = "STUDENT") @FilterDef(name="filterBySchoolAndClass", parameters={@ParamDef(name="school", type="string"),@ParamDef(name="class", type="integer")}) public class Student extends GenericEntity implements Serializable { ... } Step2. Define two custom annotations. These two annotations are to be used in your repository interfaces. You could apply the hibernate filter defined in step 1 to spe...