Spring Data ArangoDB - Reference (version 3)

Supported versions

Spring Data ArangoDB version 3 is compatible with:

• Spring Boot 2.7.x and related Spring Framework versions
• ArangoDB 3.11 and 3.12

Maven

To use Spring Data ArangoDB in your project, your build automation tool needs to be configured to include and use the Spring Data ArangoDB dependency. Example with Maven (substitute 3.x.x with the latest Spring Data ArangoDB version):

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.arangodb</groupId>
  <artifactId>arangodb-spring-data</artifactId>
  <version>3.x.x</version>
</dependency>

Configuration

You can use Java to configure your Spring Data environment as show below. Setting up the underlying driver (ArangoDB.Builder) with default configuration automatically loads a properties file arangodb.properties, if it exists in the classpath.

@Configuration
@EnableArangoRepositories(basePackages = { "com.company.mypackage" })
public class MyConfiguration implements ArangoConfiguration {

  @Override
  public ArangoDB.Builder arango() {
    return new ArangoDB.Builder();
  }

  @Override
  public String database() {
    // Name of the database to be used
    return "example-database";
  }

}

The driver is configured with some default values:

To customize the configuration, the parameters can be changed in the Java code.

@Override
public ArangoDB.Builder arango() {
  ArangoDB.Builder arango = new ArangoDB.Builder()
    .host("127.0.0.1")
    .port(8529)
    .user("root");
  return arango;
}

In addition you can use the arangodb.properties or a custom properties file to supply credentials to the driver.

Properties file

arangodb.hosts=127.0.0.1:8529
arangodb.user=root
arangodb.password=

Custom properties file

@Override
public ArangoDB.Builder arango() {
  InputStream in = MyClass.class.getResourceAsStream("my.properties");
  ArangoDB.Builder arango = new ArangoDB.Builder()
    .loadProperties(in);
  return arango;
}

Using the underlying Java Driver

The underlying Java driver can be obtained via ArangoOperations.driver(). This driver instance is configured by default to use ArangoConverter bean to serialize and deserialize user data, therefore keeping the same Spring Data ArangoDB serialization behavior.

Spring Boot

Spring Boot support is offered by Spring Boot Starter ArangoDB .

Limitations

• Java Record classes and Kotlin Data classes are not supported (DE-539)
• Spring Data REST is not supported (DE-43)
• Spring Data Reactive is not supported (DE-678)