I'm working on a Spring Boot project (generated by Spring Initializr), using Maven. I want to create a CrudRepository, but I'm getting the error "CrudRepository cannot be resolved to a type" and the package org.springframework.data.repository does not contain the CrudRepository class. I tried to follow a bunch of tutorials to understand what is wrong and I didn't find anything. My POM looks right to me, I don't have any build failure when I run maven clean and package goals, I tried to update the project and download sources, but nothing works. Eclipse can't find the CrudRepository class.
Here is my POM file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.myquickstart</groupId>
<artifactId>SpringQuickstart</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<name>SpringQuickstart</name>
<description>Demo project for Spring Boot</description>
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>1.5.1.RELEASE</version>
<relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
<java.version>1.8</java.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-rest</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
And my repository:
package com.myquickstart.repositories;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Repository;
import org.springframework.data.repository.CrudRepository;
import com.myquickstart.entities.Movie;
@Repository
public interface MovieRepository extends CrudRepository<Movie, Long> {
}
Thanks for your help
Edit:
I've updated the project with the "Maven => Update project" in Eclipse. After that, I got this error in the "Problems" view:
C:/Users/carrm/.m2/repository/org/hibernate/hibernate-core/5.0.11.Final/hibernate-core-5.0.11.Final.jar' in project 'SpringQuickstart' cannot be read or is not a valid ZIP file
I'm not sure to know how to solve this/what is the link with my CrudRepository problem.
It looks like it was an issue with Maven libraries. I deleted the whole content in .m2/repository
and ran Maven > Update project
in Eclipse, so that Maven had to download the whole content again. No more error after this!
Edit
As pointed out by user3578953, executing maven-clean does the same thing that I did by deleting the whole m2 repository content. I didn't know much about Maven when I first asked this question, but this is obviously a better way to solve the issue.