Spring Data: “delete by” is supported?

Question

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 hopi

Answer 1

Derivation of delete queries using given method name is supported starting with version 1.6.0.RC1 of Spring Data JPA. The keywords remove and delete are supported. As return value one can choose between the number or a list of removed entities.

Long removeByLastname(String lastname);

List deleteByLastname(String lastname);