Add saveWithReferenceTo[Field] DSL support for linking using EntityManager.getReference [DATAJPA-422]

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Neale Upstone opened DATAJPA-422 and commented

Instead of exposing EntityManager.getReference() as suggested in DATAJPA-83, we could provide DSL save() implementations that support saveWithReferenceTo[fieldName](entity, referenceId).

For example:

class Foo {
    private Bar bar;

    // etc
}

interface FooRepository extends CrudRepository<Foo, Long> {

    Foo saveWithReferenceToBar(Foo entity, Long barId);
}

My implementation to achieve this is at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11880924/how-to-add-custom-method-to-spring-data-jpa/19710310#19710310

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Jens Schauder commented

This is a rather special requirement and I don't think this would find the necessary amount of usage to make it worthwhile