Spring Data Rest - Sort by multiple properties

Question

I have an entity as below

Class Person{
String id;
String name;
String numberOfHands;
}

With Spring Data Rest (Gosling Release Train), I\'m

Answer 1

Here is how to construct the multi Sort object manually/programatically.

Sort sort = Sort.by(
    Sort.Order.asc("name"),
    Sort.Order.desc("numberOfHands"));
return personRepository.findAll(sort);

Note: This solution does not directly solve the original question asked, but may help visitors that landed on this question while searching for a solution how to sort on multiple properties from a backend perspective / in a somewhat "hardcoded" way. (this solution does not require/take any URI parameters)