[DELTASPIKE-1165] Repositories support returning Stream<E> in addition to List<E>

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.6.1
• Fix Version/s: 1.7.0
• Component/s: Data-Module
• Assignee: John D. Ament
• Reporter: John D. Ament
• Created: 03/Jun/16 11:21
• Updated: 19/Jun/16 23:09
• Resolved: 07/Jun/16 11:19

Description

It's a nice feature that helps make the code look a bit more modern, especially when paired up with Optional<E> support.

Since JPA returns List<E> on the query interface, we can just return list.stream() to give back a stream of data, avoiding the caller's need to wrap a stream.