`CloseableIterator` errornously listed a supported repository return type

[sergey-morenets]

Hi

According to Spring Data JPA reference documentation query methods can return List, Stream, Streamable or CloseableIterator.
The first three types are handled correctly but the fourth type raises an error.

We created repository:

public interface ProductRepository extends 
		JpaRepository<Product, Integer>, JpaSpecificationExecutor<Product> {
	
	CloseableIterator<Product> findByPrice(double price);

And while trying to fetch the entities:

		CloseableIterator<Product> iterator = 
				productRepository.findByPrice(20);
		while(iterator.hasNext()) {
			System.out.println(iterator.next());
		}

we receive an exception:

Caused by: jakarta.persistence.NonUniqueResultException: query did not return a unique result: 20
	at org.hibernate.internal.ExceptionConverterImpl.convert(ExceptionConverterImpl.java:128)
	at org.hibernate.query.spi.AbstractSelectionQuery.getSingleResult(AbstractSelectionQuery.java:482)
	at org.springframework.data.jpa.repository.query.JpaQueryExecution$SingleEntityExecution.doExecute(JpaQueryExecution.java:223)
	at org.springframework.data.jpa.repository.query.JpaQueryExecution.execute(JpaQueryExecution.java:92)
	at org.springframework.data.jpa.repository.query.AbstractJpaQuery.doExecute(AbstractJpaQuery.java:148)
	at org.springframework.data.jpa.repository.query.AbstractJpaQuery.execute(AbstractJpaQuery.java:136)

Spring Data JPA 3.1.0

[mp911de]

Sorry for the confusion. CloseableIterator isn't supported as repository return type nor was it ever intended. It is a documentation bug where CloseableIterator sneaked into a change where it wasn't supposed to be listed in the first place.