I am using Spring JPA for database access. I am able to find examples such as findByName and countByName, for which I dont have to write any method implementation. I am hoping to find examples for delete a group of records based on some condition.
Does Spring JPA support deleteByName-like delete? Any pointer is appreciated.
Regards and thanks.
Deprecated answer (Spring Data JPA <=1.6.x):
@Modifying
annotation to the rescue. You will need to provide your custom SQL behaviour though.
public interface UserRepository extends JpaRepository<User, Long> {
@Modifying
@Query("delete from User u where u.firstName = ?1")
void deleteUsersByFirstName(String firstName);
}
Update:
In modern versions of Spring Data JPA (>=1.7.x) query derivation for delete
, remove
and count
operations is accessible.
public interface UserRepository extends CrudRepository<User, Long> {
Long countByFirstName(String firstName);
Long deleteByFirstName(String firstName);
List<User> removeByFirstName(String firstName);
}