Spring Data JPA: Query by Example?

Question

Using Spring Data JPA can I do a query by example where a particular entity instance is used as the search criteria?

For example (no pun intended), if I have a

Answer 1

Spring data relies on top of JPA and EntityManager, not Hibernate and Session, and as such you do not have findByExample out of the box. You can use the spring data automatic query creation and write a method in your repository with the following signature:

List findByEmployedAndLastNameAndDob(boolean employed, String lastName, LocalDate dob);