Creating a read-only repository with SpringData

Question

Is it possible to create read-only repositories using Spring Data?

I have some entities linked to views and some child entities for which I would like to provide a r

Answer 1

To expand on Oliver Gierke's answer, in the more recent versions of Spring Data you will need the @NoRepositoryBean annotation on your ReadOnlyRepository (parent interface) to prevent application start up errors:

import org.springframework.data.repository.NoRepositoryBean;
import org.springframework.data.repository.Repository;

@NoRepositoryBean
public interface ReadOnlyRepository extends Repository {

    T findOne(ID id);

    List findAll();

}