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Creating a Repository

Explore how to create a repository class with Spring Data JPA to manage Player entities. Understand the use of @Repository and @Transactional annotations for transaction management. Learn about EntityManager and @PersistenceContext for database operations, enabling you to perform CRUD actions within a transactional context.

In JPA terms, a repository is a class that manages the entities.

@Repository annotation

We will create a PlayerRepository class to manage the Player entity and to store and retrieve data. We can mark this class with the @Repository annotation.

@Repository
public class PlayerRepository {
}
Creating the PlayerRepository class

Enabling transaction management

Database queries contain multiple steps. We will also enable transaction management to allow all steps in a query to succeed. In case of an error or runtime exception, ...