Lazy loading Spring Data JPA repositories

Question

We have lots of repositories defined via the interface extends JpaRepository pattern. When running integration tests or certain entry points to our application, we only need a very small subset of those repositories.

Can we lazily load the actual repository implimentations?

Something equivalent to @Lazy on a @Bean? Note: I did at least attempt the naive solution of annotating the repository interface with @Lazy to no avail.

Answer 1

Even if it's a very old Question, I think some may still want to know about the use of @Lazy on Spring Data repositories :

it is actually supported since v1.5.0

Answer 2

Lazyloading will avoid to get all other dependency based on your main table or request. In your case you should set a limit / offset for that kind of operation.