How To Configure MongoDb Collection Name For a Class in Spring Data

java spring mongodb spring-data spring-data-mongodb
Danish picture Danish · Sep 5, 2012 · Viewed 37.4k times · Source

I have a collection called Products in my MongoDB database, which is represented by the interface IProductPrice in my Java code. The following repository declaration causes Spring Date to look to the collection db.collection: Intelliprice.iProductPrice.

I want it to configure it to look in db.collection: Intelliprice.Products using an external configuration rather than putting an @Collection(..) annotation on IProductPrice. Is this possible? How can I do this?

public interface ProductsRepository extends
    MongoRepository<IProductPrice, String> {
}

Answer

Oliver Drotbohm picture Oliver Drotbohm · Sep 6, 2012

The only way you can currently achieve this is by annotating your domain class with @Document using the collection property to define the name of the collection instances of this class shall be persisted to.

However, there's a JIRA issue open that suggests adding a pluggable naming strategy to configure the ways class, collection and property names are handled in a more global way. Feel free to comment your use case and vote it up.

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