Spring 5.0 Projects

The service layer

In the service layer, JHipster generates a separate class as xxxQueryService, under the service package. For the Country entity, a new service class, CountryQueryService, is created. The purpose of this class is to retrieve the data with the filtering criteria, so it contains only fetch methods, which look as follows:

 public Page<CountryDTO> findByCriteria(CountryCriteria criteria, Pageable page) {     log.debug("find by criteria : {}, page: {}", criteria, page);     final Specification<Country> specification = createSpecification(criteria);     return countryRepository.findAll(specification, page)            .map(countryMapper::toDto); }

JHipster generates a Plain Old Java Object (POJO) class for each entity that is declared with the filter ...