[DELTASPIKE-1169] Separate concerns of EntityRepository

• Type: Improvement
• 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: 07/Jun/16 14:16
• Updated: 19/Jun/16 23:09
• Resolved: 09/Jun/16 02:00

Description

The current EntityRepository interface is good, but makes some extensions inflexible.

https://github.com/apache/deltaspike/blob/master/deltaspike/modules/data/api/src/main/java/org/apache/deltaspike/data/api/EntityRepository.java#L34

There are three categories of methods:

• Wrappers for low level persistence APIs.
• Searches
• Counts

These three concerns should be broken out into their own interfaces, which EntityRepository can then extend. This would allow users to leverage persistence and Streaming, without needing to bring in everything.