From 83f8306656de486d092f13cf0a42df71d6045ece Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oliver Gierke <info@olivergierke.de>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:58:48 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?DATACMNS-19=20-=20Refactored=20return=20type=20?=
 =?UTF-8?q?for=20Repository.findAll(=E2=80=A6)=20and=20according=20methods?=
 =?UTF-8?q?=20to=20return=20Iterable=20instead=20of=20List.?=
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 .../data/repository/PagingAndSortingRepository.java           | 3 +--
 .../java/org/springframework/data/repository/Repository.java  | 4 ++--
 src/main/resources/changelog.txt                              | 3 ++-
 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/spring-data-commons-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/repository/PagingAndSortingRepository.java b/spring-data-commons-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/repository/PagingAndSortingRepository.java
index 3796977ec..87ba2f078 100644
--- a/spring-data-commons-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/repository/PagingAndSortingRepository.java
+++ b/spring-data-commons-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/repository/PagingAndSortingRepository.java
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
 package org.springframework.data.repository;
 
 import java.io.Serializable;
-import java.util.List;
 
 import org.springframework.data.domain.Page;
 import org.springframework.data.domain.Pageable;
@@ -41,7 +40,7 @@ public interface PagingAndSortingRepository<T, ID extends Serializable> extends
      * @param sort
      * @return all entities sorted by the given options
      */
-    List<T> findAll(Sort sort);
+    Iterable<T> findAll(Sort sort);
 
 
     /**
diff --git a/spring-data-commons-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/repository/Repository.java b/spring-data-commons-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/repository/Repository.java
index e518305b7..ba0eeb2cf 100644
--- a/spring-data-commons-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/repository/Repository.java
+++ b/spring-data-commons-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/repository/Repository.java
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ public interface Repository<T, ID extends Serializable> {
      * @param entities
      * @return
      */
-    List<T> save(Iterable<? extends T> entities);
+    Iterable<T> save(Iterable<? extends T> entities);
 
 
     /**
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ public interface Repository<T, ID extends Serializable> {
      * 
      * @return all entities
      */
-    List<T> findAll();
+    Iterable<T> findAll();
 
 
     /**
diff --git a/src/main/resources/changelog.txt b/src/main/resources/changelog.txt
index d0475126a..81a9e41ba 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/changelog.txt
+++ b/src/main/resources/changelog.txt
@@ -14,8 +14,9 @@ Repository
 * Introduced metamodel for entities and repositories (DATACMNS-17)
 * Fixed returning wrong class PersistableEntityMetadata (DATACMNS-19)
 * Introduced infrastructure to post-process RepositoryQuery instances (DATACMNS-18) 
-* Renamed Repository.findById(…) to findOne(…) (DATACMNS-20)
+* Renamed Repository.findById(...) to findOne(É) (DATACMNS-20)
 * Extension module for Spring MVC integration (DATAJPA-19)
+* Changed method signature of Repository.findAll(...) and according methods to Iterable<T> (DATACMNS-21)
 
 Changes in version 1.0.0.M3 (2011-02-09)
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