Get last records ordered by date on Spring Data

Question

I\'m trying to define a method in a Spring Data repository to fetch the last records on a table ordered by date. This is my entity:

@Entity
public class News         


        

Answer 1

Spring JPaRepository has pagination which can be of great help. This will also work perfectly

To return the top 10 records, you can use:

Create a custom Pageable object

Pageable pageable = new PageRequest(0, 10, Sort.Direction.ASC, "id");

Page topPage = newsRepository.findByPublicationDate(id, pageable);
List topUsersList = topPage.getContent();

In the NewsRepository interface, be sure to create a method

 Page findByPublicationDate(Date date, Pageable pageable);

This will return the top records.

To return the last 10 records, you can use:

Pageable pageable = new PageRequest(0, 10, Sort.Direction.DESC, "id");

Page bottomPage = newsRepository.findByPublicationDate(id, pageable);
// this is a list of the last 10 records, you can choose to invert it by using
List bottomUsersList = bottomPage.getContent();

Collections.inverse(bottomUsersList);

This will reuse the same NewsRespoitory, so no need to create another method there.

The advantage of using pages is that it becomes flexible to sort by another column. (Either ASC or DESC)

// To get top by text
Pageable pageable = new PageRequest(0, 10, Sort.Direction.ASC, "text");
// Top by title
Pageable pageable = new PageRequest(0, 10, Sort.Direction.ASC, "title");
// Top by publicationDate
Pageable pageable = new PageRequest(0, 10, Sort.Direction.ASC, "publicationDate");

10 can be replaced by whatever number of records you need returned