This will work as soon as spring-projects/spring-data-jpa#2681 is resolved

Author: christophstrobl

data-jpa/src/main/java/com/example/data/jpa/BookRepository.java

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 
 public interface BookRepository extends ListCrudRepository<Book, Long> {
 
-	@EntityGraph(value = "Book.authors")
+	// @EntityGraph(value = "Book.authors")
 	@Query("SELECT b FROM Book b WHERE b.title = :title")
 	Book findByTitleWithNamedGraph(String title);
 

data-jpa/src/main/java/com/example/data/jpa/CLR.java

@@ -73,7 +73,8 @@ private void entityGraph() {
 		book.getAuthors().add(author);
 		bookRepository.save(book);
 
-		Book loaded = bookRepository.findByTitleWithNamedGraph("Spring in Action");
+		// Book loaded = bookRepository.findByTitleWithNamedGraph("Spring in Action");
+		Book loaded = bookRepository.findByTitleWithAdHocGraph("Spring in Action");
 		System.out.println("namedEntityGraph: " + loaded);
 	}
 

data-jpa/src/main/java/com/example/data/jpa/model/Book.java

@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@
 import jakarta.persistence.OneToMany;
 
 @Entity
-@NamedEntityGraph(name = "Book.authors", attributeNodes = @NamedAttributeNode("authors"))
+// @NamedEntityGraph(name = "Book.authors", attributeNodes =
+// @NamedAttributeNode("authors"))
 public class Book {
 
 	@Id