Spring Data JPA/Hibernate handling associations

Question

I need based on parameter retrieve or not some associations from an entity. In the bellow example I need to get the records list only if a parameter is passed through my api. Ca

Answer 1

How about using the base findById to return just the Customer object and have another method findWithRecordsById to return customer+records using @EntityGraph?

public interface CustomerRepository extends JpaRepository<Customer, UUID>{

    @EntityGraph(attributePaths = {"records"})
    Customer findWithRecordsById(UUID id);
...
}