Multiple Repositories for the Same Entity in Spring Data Rest

Question

Is it possible to publish two different repositories for the same JPA entity with Spring Data Rest? I gave the two repositories different paths and rel-names, but only one o

Answer 1

I ended up using the @Subselect to create a second immutable entity and bound that to the second JpaRepsotory and setting it to @RestResource(exported = false), that also encourages a separation of concerns.

Employee Example

@Entity
@Table(name = "employee")
public class Employee {

    @Id
    Long id

    String name

    ...

}

@RestResource
public interface EmployeeRepository extends PagingAndSortingRepository {

}

@Entity
@Immutable   
@Subselect(value = 'select id, name, salary from employee')
public class VEmployeeSummary {

    @Id
    Long id

    ...

}

@RestResource(exported = false)
public interface VEmployeeRepository extends JpaRepository {

}

Context

Two packages in the monolithic application had different requirements. One needed to expose the entities for the UI in a PagingAndSortingRepository including CRUD functions. The other was for an aggregating backend report component without paging but with sorting.

I know I could have filtered the results from the PagingAndSorting Repository after requesting Pageable.unpaged() but I just wanted a Basic JPA repository which returned List for some filters.