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

We had many hundreds of usages of the old findOne() method. Rather than embark on a mammoth refactor, we ended up creating the following intermediary interface and had our repositories extend it instead of extending JpaRepository directly

@NoRepositoryBean
public interface BaseJpaRepository extends JpaRepository { 
    default T findOne(ID id) { 
        return (T) findById(id).orElse(null); 
    } 
}