Missing CrudRepository#findOne method

Question

I am using Spring 5 in my project. Until today there was available method CrudRepository#findOne.

But after downloading latest snapshot it suddenly disappeared! Is t

Answer 1

Note that findById is not an exact replacement for findOne, it returns an Optional instead of null.

Being not very familiar with new java things it took me a little while to figure out, but this turns the findById behavior into the findOne one:

return rep.findById(id).orElse(null);