This One Spring Data JPA Pattern Cleaned Up to 3 Years of Repository Debt

If you’ve spent more than a year building enterprise Java apps, you’ve probably felt this specific kind of pain: a product manager asks for a new search filter, and you open your repository file to find it already has 18 methods. You write number 19, then 20, and somewhere around method 25 you start wondering if there’s a better way. There is.