spring-data-jpa Repositories Finding all instances of an entity class
Example
All instances (objects) of an entity class can be loaded from the underlying database table as follows (akin to retrieving all rows from the table):
Iterable<Foo> foos = fooRepository.findAll();
The findAll method is provided by the CrudRepository interface. It returns an Iterable instead of a more concrete type like List or Set because some implementations of the interface may be unable to return a Collection type and therefore using a Collection type for the returned value will result in loss of functionality for them.
Invoking the findAll method results in the JPA query select foo from Foo foo being executed on the underlying database.
