Support SpEL expression resolution for @Document "collection" field

[dsibilio]

It would be nice to be able to dynamically load a collection name using SpEL expressions.

Examples:

• from property source: e.g.

  @Document(collection = "${dynamic.collection.name}")
  public class MyCollection 

  ---

  @Document(collection = "#{@environment.getProperty('dynamic.collection.name')}")
  public class MyCollection 

• from bean field/method invocation:

  @Document(collection = "#{@someBean.getCollectionName()}")
  public class MyCollection 

Pull Requests

https://github.com/microsoft/spring-data-cosmosdb/pull/390

[Thommynator]

Hi, this feature would be really helpful. 👍 Right now I'm looking for a way to make the collection name configurable by a property file like in the first option.

I noticed that the pull request has merge conflicts. Are there any plans to add this feature in the near future? :)

Can anyone tell me the best practice for making the collection name configurable without this change?

[dsibilio]

I noticed that the pull request has merge conflicts.

Thanks for noticing, I pulled the changes and solved the conflicts. The Travis CI pipeline for integration tests seems to be broken though :(

Can anyone tell me the best practice for making the collection name configurable without this change?

Without this feature, I think you'd have to work with changing the collection name reflectively at runtime (e.g. https://www.baeldung.com/java-reflection-change-annotation-params)

[christopheranderson]

@kushagraThapar - can you take a look at this?

[kushagraThapar]

@dsibilio I have moved the travis CI to Azure DevOps CI, which supports running the CI on PRs from forked repository. I have tried running that on your PR, but there are still some hiccups. I will fix that asap.

[dsibilio]

@kushagraThapar Thank you, let me know if I can help you with anything.

[kushagraThapar]

@dsibilio CI is running successfully on external PRs now. I will take a look at the PR tomorrow.