Spring Data MongoDB Repository with custom collection name

Question

I am using Spring Data for MongoDB and I need to be able to configure collection at runtime.

My repository is defined as:

@Repository
public interfac         


        

Answer 1

Entity Class

@Document    // remove the parameters from here


public class EscalationCase 
{

}

Configuration class

public class MongoDBConfiguration {

    private final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(MongoDBConfiguration.class);

    @Value("${sfdc.mongodb.collection}") //taking collection name from properties file 
    private String collectionName;

    @Bean

    public MongoTemplate mongoTemplate(MongoDbFactory mongoDbFactory, MongoMappingContext context) {

        MappingMongoConverter converter = new MappingMongoConverter(new DefaultDbRefResolver(mongoDbFactory), context);
        converter.setTypeMapper(new DefaultMongoTypeMapper(null));
        MongoTemplate mongoTemplate = new MongoTemplate(mongoDbFactory, converter);
        if (!mongoTemplate.collectionExists(collectionName)) {
            mongoTemplate.createCollection(collectionName);  // adding the collection name here
        }
        return mongoTemplate;

    }
}

Answer 2

define your entity class like

@Document(collection = "${EventDataRepository.getCollectionName()}")
public class EventData implements Serializable {

Define a custom repository interface with getter and setter methods for "collectionName"

public interface EventDataRepositoryCustom {

    String getCollectionName();

    void setCollectionName(String collectionName);
}

provide implementation class for custom repository with "collectionName" implementation

public class EventDataRepositoryImpl implements EventDataRepositoryCustom{

    private static String collectionName = "myCollection";

    @Override
    public String getCollectionName() {
        return collectionName;
    }

    @Override
    public void setCollectionName(String collectionName) {
        this.collectionName = collectionName;
    }
}

Add EventDataRepositoryImpl to the extends list of your repository interface in this it would look like

@Repository
public interface EventDataRepository extends MongoRepository<EventData, String>, EventDataRepositoryImpl  {
}

Now in your Service class where you are using the MongoRepository set the collection name, it would look like

@Autowired
EventDataRepository  repository ;

repository.setCollectionName("collectionName");

Answer 3

So, at the end, here is a work around that did the trick. I guess I really don't know how to access data from Spring Properties Configurer using the SPeL expressions.

In my @Configuration class:

@Value("${mongo.event.collection}")
private String
    mongoEventCollectionName;

@Bean
public String mongoEventCollectionName() {
    return
        mongoEventCollectionName;
}

On my Document:

@Document(collection = "#{mongoEventCollectionName}")

This, appears to work and properly pick up the name configured in my .properties file, however, I am still not sure why I could not just access the value with $ as I do in the @Value annotation.

Answer 4

You can solve this problem by just using SPeL:

@Document(collection = "#{environment.getProperty('mongo.event.collection')}")
public class EventData implements Serializable {
    ...
}

Update Spring 5.x:

Since Spring 5.x or so you need an additional @ before environment:

@Document(collection = "#{@environment.getProperty('mongo.event.collection')}")
public class EventData implements Serializable {
    ...
}