When I started to use spring boot I was annotating my interface with @Repositoryall these days I was following the same, but today I happened to come across annotating with another way called @RepositoryRestResource. What is the difference between them, When is it used.
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@RepositoryRestResource means you have REST endpoint to the repository. So user calls it directly via REST calls.
@Repository is a marker to a component which somehow stores data (CRUD operations). It is not necessary be accessible from external users directly.
So in case of @RepositoryRestResource you don't have any controller/service/dao layers but direct access.
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In addition to answer mentioned above, you can also customize your REST endpoints using @RepositoryRestResource.
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duddits
Your answer will be much more usefull in case you'll add some links to information you mentioned.
The @Repository annotation enables exception translation so you can handle Springs DataAccessException instead of underlying persistence implementation exceptions (via PersistenceExceptionTranslationPostProcessor). @RepositoryRestResource is not a specialization of @Repository so you might want in include both, to expose REST endpoints and enable exception translation.
