SimpleR2dbcRepository does not support custom subclasses

[ada-waffles]

This section of the Spring Data Reference Documentation describes how a custom repository base class can be used.

It notes that, when doing so, one must override/provide a constructor with the signature (EntityInformation<T, ID>, StoreOperations, ...).

In the case of SimpleR2dbcRepository, that would be SimpleR2dbcRepository(RelationalEntityInformation<T, ID>, R2dbcEntityOperations, R2dbcConverter). However, that constructor is package-private.

Attempting to override the public constructor yields an error on bean instantiation saying to provide the other signature. It is also not possible to convert from the desired signature to the public one, as there does not appear to be a publicly-accessible way to pull the ReactiveDataAccessStrategy back out of the R2dbcEntityOperations (The trick the R2dbcEntityTemplate constructor uses to pull it out of the DatabaseClient won't work as DefaultDatabaseClient is also package-private).

Is there a particular reason that constructor is package-private? The fact that it is seems to me to be the only thing preventing the use of a custom base class. Or is there something else I'm missing?

[mp911de]

Waiting for #368.

[dkublik]

@duke9509 as a temporary workaround you can always use the second constructor with null value for ReactiveDataAccessStrategy

    public BaseRepositoryImpl(RelationalEntityInformation<T, ID> entity, R2dbcEntityOperations entityOperations,
        R2dbcConverter converter) {
        super(entity, entityOperations.getDatabaseClient(), converter, null);
    }

I've checked - it's working.

SimpleR2dbcRepository ignores it anyway

public SimpleR2dbcRepository(RelationalEntityInformation<T, ID> entity, DatabaseClient databaseClient,
			R2dbcConverter converter, ReactiveDataAccessStrategy accessStrategy) {

		this.entity = entity;
		this.entityOperations = new R2dbcEntityTemplate(databaseClient);
		this.idProperty = Lazy.of(() -> converter //
				.getMappingContext() //
				.getRequiredPersistentEntity(this.entity.getJavaType()) //
				.getRequiredIdProperty());
	}

[ada-waffles]

@dkublik You know... I am kind of embarrassed that I didn't think of that, haha. Thank you very much! 😂