Spring Data for Apache Cassandra - Reference Documentation David Webb, Matthew Adams, John Blum, Mark Paluch Version 2.0.2.RELEASE, 2017-11-27 Table of Contents Preface. 2 1. Knowing Spring . 3 2. Knowing NoSQL and Cassandra. 4 3. Requirements . 5 4. Additional Help Resources. 6 4.1. Support . 6 4.1.1. Community Forum . 6 4.1.2. Professional Support . 6 4.2. Following Development . 6 4.3. Project Metadata. 6 5. New & Noteworthy . 8 5.1. What’s new in Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 2.0 . 8 5.2. What’s new in Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 1.5 . 8 6. Dependencies . 9 6.1. Dependency management with Spring Boot. 10 6.2. Spring Framework. 10 7. Working with Spring Data Repositories . 11 7.1. Core concepts . 11 7.2. Query methods . 13 7.3. Defining repository interfaces . 15 7.3.1. Fine-tuning repository definition. 15 7.3.2. Null handling of repository methods. 15 7.3.3. Using Repositories with multiple Spring Data modules . 18 7.4. Defining query methods. 21 7.4.1. Query lookup strategies . 21 7.4.2. Query creation . 22 7.4.3. Property expressions. 23 7.4.4. Special parameter handling. 23 7.4.5. Limiting query results. 24 7.4.6. Streaming query results . 25 7.4.7. Async query results . 26 7.5. Creating repository instances . 26 7.5.1. XML configuration . 26 7.5.2. JavaConfig . 27 7.5.3. Standalone usage . 28 7.6. Custom implementations for Spring Data repositories . 28 7.6.1. Customizing individual repositories . 29 7.6.2. Customize the base repository . 33 7.7. Publishing events from aggregate roots. 34 7.8. Spring Data extensions . 35 7.8.1. Querydsl Extension . 35 7.8.2. Web support . 36 7.8.3. Repository populators . 42 7.8.4. Legacy web support. 44 Reference Documentation . 47 8. Introduction . 48 8.1. Spring CQL and Spring Data for Apache Cassandra modules . 48 8.1.1. Choosing an approach for Cassandra database access . 48 9. Cassandra support. 50 9.1. Getting Started . 50 9.2. Examples Repository. 54 9.3. Connecting to Cassandra with Spring . 54 9.3.1. Registering a Session instance using Java-based metadata . 54 9.3.2. XML Configuration. 57 9.4. Schema Management . 60 9.4.1. Keyspaces and Lifecycle scripts . 60 9.4.2. Tables and User-defined types . 63 9.5. CqlTemplate. ..