spring data - Mongodb - findBy Method for nested objects

Question

I have two domain objects,

@Document
public class PracticeQuestion {

     private int userId;
     private List questions;

// Getters and s         


        

Answer 1

Property expressions

Property expressions can refer only to a direct property of the managed entity, as shown in the preceding example. At query creation time you already make sure that the parsed property is a property of the managed domain class. However, you can also define constraints by traversing nested properties. Assume Persons have Addresses with ZipCodes. In that case a method name of List findByAddressZipCode(ZipCode zipCode); creates the property traversal x.address.zipCode. The resolution algorithm starts with interpreting the entire part (AddressZipCode) as the property and checks the domain class for a property with that name (uncapitalized). If the algorithm succeeds it uses that property. If not, the algorithm splits up the source at the camel case parts from the right side into a head and a tail and tries to find the corresponding property, in our example, AddressZip and Code. If the algorithm finds a property with that head it takes the tail and continue building the tree down from there, splitting the tail up in the way just described. If the first split does not match, the algorithm move the split point to the left (Address, ZipCode) and continues.

Although this should work for most cases, it is possible for the algorithm to select the wrong property. Suppose the Person class has an addressZip property as well. The algorithm would match in the first split round already and essentially choose the wrong property and finally fail (as the type of addressZip probably has no code property). To resolve this ambiguity you can use _ inside your method name to manually define traversal points. So our method name would end up like so:

UserDataRepository:

List findByAddress_ZipCode(ZipCode zipCode);

UserData findByUserId(String userId);

ProfileRepository:

Profile findByProfileId(String profileId);

UserDataRepositoryImpl:

UserData userData =  userDateRepository.findByUserId(userId);

Profile profile = profileRepository.findByProfileId(userData.getProfileId());

userData.setProfile(profile);

Sample Pojo :

public class UserData {

    private String userId;
    private String status;
    private Address address;
    private String profileId;

    //New Property
    private Profile profile;

    //TODO:setter & getter
}

public class Profile {

    private String email;
    private String profileId;
}

For the above Document/POJO in your Repository Class:

UserData findByProfile_Email(String email);

For ref : http://docs.spring.io/spring-data/data-commons/docs/1.6.1.RELEASE/reference/html/repositories.html