Spring Data JPA Fetching

Question

Is there a way to define a Spring Data Specification (returning a JPA predicate) whose sole purpose is to perform eager fetching?

I have an entity which defines various

Answer 1

We have improved the handling of null Specifications and Predicates in the course of fixing DATAJPA-300. You might wanna give the 1.4 snapshots a try and see how this affects your scenario.