Using JpaRepository difference between deleteBy and removeBy

Question

I have been testing out the delete feature for JpaRepository and have this (simplified) Interface:

@Repository
public interface BrowserInfoDao extends JpaRepository<BrowserInfo, String> {

    @Transactional
    public Integer deleteByClientGuidAndBrowserGuid(String clientGuid, String browserGuid);

    @Transactional
    public Integer removeByClientGuidAndBrowserGuid(String clientGuid, String browserGuid);

}

In my tests I can't find any behavioral difference between the removeBy and deleteBy method. So my question is what is the difference between these if any? Is there a best practice reason to use one over the other?

Note: I am using Hibernate as the implementation.

Answer 1

They are the same . Which one to choose depend on your personal preference.

For detail , please see this. Code-wise, check out PartTree which defines the following regex pattern for matching these delete query:

private static final String DELETE_PATTERN = "delete|remove";
private static final Pattern PREFIX_TEMPLATE = Pattern.compile( //
        "^(" + QUERY_PATTERN + "|" + COUNT_PATTERN + "|" + DELETE_PATTERN + ")((\\p{Lu}.*?))??By");