Repository Pattern Standardization of methods

Question

All I am trying to find out the correct definition of the repository pattern.

My original understanding was this (extremely dumbed down)

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Answer 1

From Martin Fowler "Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture", the definition of the Repository Pattern is:

Mediates between the domain and data mapping layers using a collection-like interface for accessing domain objects.

So, both approaches are correct.