Non-native NullHandling not supported by JpaRepository

[demonfiddler]

The org.springframework.data.domain.Sort.NullHandling API provides for NULLS_FIRST and NULLS_LAST but in practice anything other than NATIVE throws UsupportedOperationException at org.springframework.data.jpa.repository.query.QueryUtils.java line 757:

		if (order.getNullHandling() != Sort.NullHandling.NATIVE) {
			throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Applying Null Precedence using Criteria Queries is not yet supported.");
		}

[christophstrobl]

Null Precedence using Criteria Query is specified with JPA 3.2 (https://jakarta.ee/specifications/persistence/3.2/). Before that, we cannot set null precedence through the API. Spring Data JPA 4.0 will be based on JPA 3.2

[demonfiddler]

Okay, thanks Christoph, I'll look out for SDJPA-4.0. Guess I was thrown by its inclusion in the API before it was actually supported. I can temporarily rework my application to route such queries to my existing custom repository implementation that does support Null Precedence in queries.