Spring Data JPA also provides options to write custom queries. The following snippet shows a simple example:

    @Query("select u from User u where u.name = ?1")
    List<User> findUsersByNameUsingQuery(String name);

Important things to note are as follows:

• @Query: The annotation to define queries for repository methods
• select u from User u where u.name = ?1: Query to be executed. ?1 represents the first parameter
• findUsersByNameUsingQuery: When this method is called, the query specified is executed with the name as the parameter