How to access Spring Data configured entity manager (factory) in custom implementation

Question

I\'m writing a custom implementation for a Spring Data JPA repository. So I have:

• MyEntityRepositoryCustom => interface with the custom methods

Answer 1

Spring Data JPA uses Auto configuration classes to auto generate entityManagerFactory, dataSource and transactionManager.

If you want get access to entityManager and control the instantiation and settings, you need to define your own PersistenceConfiguration. Below is the sample code using Java Config

    @Configuration
    @EnableTransactionManagement
    @EnableJpaRepositories(basePackages = { "com.test.repositories.*" })
    public class PersistenceJpaConfig {

        @Autowired
        JpaVendorAdapter jpaVendorAdapter;

        @Bean
        public DataSource dataSource() {
            return new EmbeddedDatabaseBuilder()
                    .setName("testdb")
                    .setType(EmbeddedDatabaseType.HSQL)
                    .build();
        }

        @Bean
        public EntityManager entityManager() {
            return entityManagerFactory().createEntityManager();
        }

        @Bean
        public EntityManagerFactory entityManagerFactory() {
            LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean lef = new LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean();
            lef.setDataSource(dataSource());
            lef.setJpaVendorAdapter(jpaVendorAdapter);
            lef.setPackagesToScan("com.test.domain.*");
            lef.afterPropertiesSet();
            return lef.getObject();
        }

        @Bean
        public PlatformTransactionManager transactionManager() {
            return new JpaTransactionManager(entityManagerFactory());
        }
    }

If you have multiple data sources, follow this article.