Does spring CrudRepository support deleteBy of a list?

Question

Does the Spring Data CrudRepository provide deletion of a list of entries by a attribute that is not the primary key?

public interface MyRepository extends CrudRepository<MyEntity, Long> {
    @Modifying
    @Transactional
    public void deleteByName(List<String> names);
}

Answer 1

Yes this is possible, the documentation explains the In keyword with the following example. It is further shown by the example that the list argument does not have to be of the type of the primary key of the entity:

In -> findByAgeIn(Collection<Age> ages)

In and NotIn also take any subclass of Collection as parameter as well as arrays or varargs.

and this in turn could then be applied to your delete query:

In addition to query methods, query derivation for both count and delete queries, is available.

Something like:

void deleteByNamesIn(List<String> names);