Using converters in a list with Spring Roo - model-view-controller

Now that I found how to use converters in an HTML SELECT in Spring Roo, I am trying to do the same in a list.
I managed to register a Converter in my ApplicationConversionServiceFactoryBean, but now I need to use it as well when displaying a list of my envities. I have the following entity :
#RooJavaBean
#RooToString
#RooEntity
public class Environment {
#NotNull
#Size(min = 2, max = 30)
private String name;
#ManyToOne
private Application application;
}
When displaying it as a list in the generated MVC, it looks like the application is displayed as a toString() and not using the registered converter.
What am I missing ?

You need to push-in refactor the Roo generated converter method to the application conversion factory bean.
Sometimes, by default toString() method is used for the conversion.
Alternatively, you can try pushing in and overriding the toString() method within the entity itself. You will have to remove the #RooToString annotation while doing this.
Cheers!!!

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Class based projections using a DTO in Spring Data Jpa is not working

In my Spring Boot application, I am trying to implement a class based projection using DTOs as described at:
https://docs.spring.io/spring-data/jpa/docs/current/reference/html/#projections.dtos
I have a domain class that looks like:
#Entity
#Table(name="metadatavalue")
public class MetadataValue {
#Id
#Column(name="metadata_value_id")
private Integer metadataValueId;
#Column(name="resource_id", insertable=false, updatable=false)
private Integer resourceId;
#Column(name="metadata_field_id", insertable=false, updatable=false)
private Integer metadataFieldId;
#Column(name="text_value")
private String textValue;
more class members, getters and setters, etc follow.
I also have a simple DTO class with one member:
public class MetadataDTO {
private String textValue;
public MetadataDTO(String textValue) {
this.textValue = textValue;
}
public String getTextValue() {
return textValue;
}
}
My repository class is:
public interface MetadataValueRepository extends CrudRepository<MetadataValue, Integer> {
#Query("SELECT m from MetadataValue m WHERE m.handle.handle = :handle AND m.resourceTypeId=m.handle.resourceTypeId")
List<MetadataValue> findAllByHandle(#Param("handle") String handle);
#Query("SELECT new path.to.my.package.domain.MetadataDTO(m.textValue AS textValue) FROM MetadataValue m "
+ "WHERE m.handle.handle = :handle AND m.resourceTypeId=m.handle.resourceTypeId")
List<MetadataDTO> findAllByHandleDTO(#Param("handle") String handle);
}
The first method, findAllByHandle works as expected, but when running the second method, findAllByHandleDTO, which I had hoped to return the projection, my application throws the error:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Couldn't find PersistentEntity for type class path.to.my.package.domain.MetadataDTO!
I have also tried extending from JpaRepository with the same result. In another attempt, I tried using an Interface based projection which resulted in an almost identical stacktrace, with an internal class substituted for my class.
My project is spring-boot 2.3.0 with Spring Web, Spring Data JPA, Rest Repositories, and PostgreSQL Driver.
Can anybody help me understand what I am doing wrong and set me in the right direction?
Thanks so much!
Update on this question: (I have added the tag spring-data-rest). Experimenting, I have learned that I can successfully call my method, for instance, in the run() method of my application class. It's only when I call the method as a rest endpoint that I see the error. Is this simply an issue of incompatibility with Spring Data Rest?

Marshalling a Spring Data Jpa Projection in a rest endpoint to xml produces strange tags

When marshalling a spring data jpa projection, the xml structure is invalid. The proxy is displayed as a root xml tag, not the projection interface class name. The JSON output however is fine, but the rest client on the external system does not understand json.
The entity looks like this example - the real entity is more complicated:
public class User implements Serializable {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
#Id
#GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
private Long id;
private String name;
private String surname;
private String city;
private int age;
// getters, setters, ...
}
The projection interface looks like:
#XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.PROPERTY)
#XmlRootElement(name = "user-short")
public interface UserShort {
String getName();
String getCity();
}
The response from the rest endpoint shows (we need application/xml):
<.Proxy253>
<name>Alexander</name>
<city>Alexandria</city>
</.Proxy253>
The number in the proxy tag is changing. I would expect a root tag with the name of the interface or the #XmlRootElement(name = "user-short") annotation like this:
<user-short>
<name>Alexander</name>
<city>Alexandria</city>
</user-short>
We are using a interface-based Spring Data JPA projection in our project. Now we want to use it in a REST endpoint, without exposed repositories. So we can't use Spring Data Rest projections. Due to nested projections, we can't use class-based projections either. The JSON output looks like expected, but the xml output writes the proxy class as the root tag. And all XML-Annotations are ignored ( enums don't get converted to ordinals etc. ).
In a debugger when I open the variable of the interface type UserShort I see a instance of type com.sun.proxy.Proxy, some reflection stuff. There is no implementation of UserShort.
What is the prefered way to tell the marshaller to use the information from the interface and not the reflection stuff in spring boot?
Thanks for any help
What you try is not supported by the JAXB spec:
The mapping of existing Java interfaces to schema
constructs is not supported. Since an existing class
can implement multiple interfaces, there is no obvious mapping of existing interfaces to XML schema constructs.
Sou you should use Class-based Projections (DTOs) on Spring Data

Request body Object Not being Validated

I have one REST API which is using a POST Call to create a record, I'm expecting certain Object to be passed in post call, if anything is missing i have to reject straight away from their only,
#RequestMapping(value="/saveEssentialDetails",produces={"application/json"},method=RequestMethod.POST)
ResponseEntity<?> saveEssentialDetails(#ApiParam(value="Body Parameters")#RequestBody #Validated EssentialDetails essentialDetails, BindingResult bindingResult)throws Exception;
and the Essential Model class is as follow
#Data
#NoArgsConstructor
#Document(collection="essentialDetails")
public class EssentialDetails {
#NotNull
Integer dpId;
#Id
#NotEmpty
String tpId;
#NotEmpty
List<FamousFor> famousFor;
#NotEmpty
List<OpenHours> openHours;
#NotEmpty
Pictures uploadedImages;
#NotEmpty
List<FloorDescription> floorDescriptions;
#NotEmpty
List<Outlets> mallOutlets;
}
But while making a Post Call with Missing attributes i'm allowed to make an entry in MongoDB, which i don't want to persist as it's not a proper request,#Validation is not working for me, i'm using spring boot 2.0.6 with MongoDb 4.0.4,
any help would be highly appreciated. Thanks well in advance
#Validated can be used to validate a object with a custom validation object. Example usage:
#RequestMapping(value = "/")
public String request(#Validated(Account.ValidationStepOne.class) Account account)
Instead of using #Validated use #Valid which does check for the validation annotations that you are using in your entity.

Spring Data Redis Repository support does not read back embedded complex objects

I have a spring-boot application (1.4RC1, I know it's RC, but Spring Data Redis 1.7.2 is not) where I'm using spring-boot-starter-redis.
The application uses a Spring Data Repository (CrudRepository) which should save an object (using #RedisHash annotation) with String and Boolean properties and one custom class property, which also has only Strings and Longs as properties.
When I save an object (via the repository), everything went fine and I can see all the properties in the database as I would expect.
When I want to read the data from the database (via the repository) I only get the properties from the parent object. The custom class property is null.
I would expect to get the property loaded from the database as well. As the documentation states you can write a custom converter, but since I don't need to do that, when I want to write the data, I shouldn't need to write a reading converter as well.
I wonder if I need to annotate the custom class property, but I couldn't find anything in the documentation. Can you point me in the right direction?
The classes are as follows:
Class sample:
#Data
#EqualsAndHashCode(exclude = {"isActive", "sampleCreated", "sampleConfiguration"})
#RedisHash
public class Sample {
#Id
private String sampleIdentifier;
private Boolean isActive;
private Date sampleCreated;
private SampleConfiguration sampleConfiguration;
public Sample(String sampleIdentifier, SampleConfiguration sampleConfiguration){
this.sampleIdentifier = sampleIdentifier;
this.sampleConfiguration = sampleConfiguration;
}
}
Class SampleConfiguration:
#Data
public class SampleConfiguration {
private String surveyURL;
private Long blockingTime;
private String invitationTitle;
private String invitationText;
private String participateButtonText;
private String doNotParticipateButtonText;
private String optOutButtonText;
private Long frequencyCappingThreshold;
private Long optOutBlockingTime;
}
I added #NoArgsConstructor to my Sample class as Christoph Strobl suggested. Then the repository reads the SampleConfiguration correctly. Thanks, Christoph!

Using #Configurable domain object properties to assign a specific behaviour based on data

I have a domain object which looks like this.
i need to use the data fetched from the database ("type" in this example) to fetch and inject the correct type of service.
I get this output which means that the DB data are not set during the call :
entity is a bean postconstruct: PocProduct [id=null, type=null, productName=null].. attching behavior!
I get the same resilt when I try with the initializing Bean.
What is the correct way to configure this?
#Entity
#Table(name = "AAA_POC_PROD")
#Configurable(dependencyCheck = true)
#Scope("prototype")
public class PocProduct implements Serializable, InitializingBean {
/**
*
*/
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1136936011238094989L;
#Id
private String id;
private String type;
private String productName;
#Transient
private Behaviour behaviour;
#Transient
#Autowired
private BehaviourFactory behaviourFactory;
//getters and setters
#PostConstruct
public void attachBehavior() {
System.out.println("entity is a bean postconstruct: " + this + ".. attching behavior!");
//Need to call this : depends on type which is fetched from DB
// this.behaviour = behaviourFactory.getTypeBasedBehaviour(type);
}
}
Configurable beans are initialized by Spring after or before construction, depending on the value of the #Configurable.preConstruction attribute. When loading an entity from a database this means the following sequence of events:
The JPA provider creates the entity by invoking it's constructor via reflection
While the constructor executes, spring-aspects' AnnotationBeanConfigurerAspect intercepts the constructor execution and, before (or after) the constructor executes, Spring will configure this newly created object by executing any bean configuration you have in your spring context, including autowiring of properties.
The JPA provider will receive this object already configured by Spring and will start populating its persistent properties with data fetched from the DB.
Optionally, if you set up #PostLoad methods, the JPA provider will invoke these methods so that your entities have a chance to do work after the entity is fully populated by data from the DB.
From what I see you're trying to do, this 4th step is where you should put your custom behavior logic, assuming everything else is working properly.

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