Spring Data: “delete by” is supported?

Question

I am using Spring JPA for database access. I am able to find examples such as findByName and countByName, for which I dont have to write any method implementation. I am hopi

Answer 1

Be carefull when you use derived query for batch delete. It isn't what you expect: DeleteExecution

Answer 2

Yes , deleteBy method is supported To use it you need to annotate method with @Transactional

Answer 3

If you take a look at the source code of Spring Data JPA, and particularly the PartTreeJpaQuery class, you will see that is tries to instantiate PartTree. Inside that class the following regular expression

private static final Pattern PREFIX_TEMPLATE = Pattern.compile("^(find|read|get|count|query)(\\p{Lu}.*?)??By")

should indicate what is allowed and what's not.

Of course if you try to add such a method you will actually see that is does not work and you get the full stacktrace.

I should note that I was using looking at version 1.5.0.RELEASE of Spring Data JPA