arangodb和spring数据，如何使用用户生成的ID？

Question

I'm using ArangoDB arangodb-java-driver.version=4.2.1 and arangodb-spring-data.version=1.1.2 (although will be moving to spring boot 2 soon, so these will change)

I would like to be able create new objects with an id that's already generated.

I realize this can be done using the arangoTemplate/arangoOperations ( arangoOperations.insert(doc) ) but this takes us out of spring data and pulls arango specific code into my service classes.

The issue is that if I save a new object that already contains an id (that uses the @Id annotation) then arango will assume it's an update, and fail with object-not-found (as it checks to see if the object is there before doing an update)

So ... does anyone have any bright ideas that will help me to use arangodb and spring data and provide my own IDs ?

thanks in advance,
Simon

Answer 1

this is currently an issue and the only workaround I see, is to use a field annotated with @Key and use ArangoOperations.insert(Object) to initial save your entity.

Solving this problem is on high priority. I created a github issue to track the progress on this.