Bulk Delete Operation with Spring Data JPA and Spring MVC

Hi everyone, in this post I want to show you on how to make a bulk delete operation with Spring Data JPA and Spring MVC. Lets have a look our goals :

As you can see in the above picture that we are going to create such a bulk delete operation, when point number 1 is describing that we will have checkbox for every single record list, and the number 2 is a button delete for delete operation.

JSP & JQuery side

Firstly we will create checkbox for every single record in view list, here is the code :

<c:forEach items="${page.objList }" var="obj" varStatus="vs">
		<tr>
			<td>
				<input type="checkbox" name="bulkwelcome" class="bulkwelcome"
									id="bulkwelcome_${obj.id }" value="${obj.id }"/>&nbsp;
			</td>
			<td>${vs.count + page.startCount }</td>
			<td>${obj.name }</td>
			<td>${obj.description }</td>
			<td align="right">
				<a href="${base }/edit/${obj.id }" class="glyphicon glyphicon-pencil" title="Edit"></a>&nbsp;
				<a href="#" onclick="deleterecord(${obj.id})" class="glyphicon glyphicon-trash" title="Delete"></a>&nbsp;
				<a href="${base }/detail/${obj.id}" class="glyphicon glyphicon-eye-open" title="Detail"></a>&nbsp;
			</td>
		</tr>
</c:forEach>

and the second we will create one more checkbox in the top list.

<tr>
	<th width="3%"><input type="checkbox" name="checkall" class="checkall" id="checkall" onclick="checkall()" /></th>
	<th width="5%">#</th>
	<th>Name</th>
	<th>Description</th>
	<th width="10%"></th>
</tr>

Create a new function in Javascript to check all and uncheck all when top checkbox is pressed.

/**
 * Check all records
 */
function checkall(){
	var checked = $('input:checkbox[id^="bulkwelcome_"]');
	if($('input.checkall').is(':checked')) {
		if(checked.length > 0){
			$('.bulkwelcome').each(function(){
				this.checked = true;
			});
		}
	} else {
		if(checked.length > 0){
			$('.bulkwelcome').each(function(){
				this.checked = false;
			});
		}
	}
}

and now lets create a function javascript to delete records which have checked

/**
 * delete bulk records
 *
 * @returns {Boolean}
 */
function deleterecords() {
	var ids = $('input:checkbox:checked.bulkwelcome').map(function () {
				  return this.value;
				 }).get();

	if(ids.length == 0){
		alert("Please select at least one record");
		return false;
	}

	var x = window.confirm("Are you sure to want to delete these records ?");
	if (x && (ids.length > 0)) {
		window.location = "${base}/deletebatch/"+ids;
	}
}

Lets call this javascript method at the button delete

<button class="btn btn-warning btn-sm glyphicon glyphicon-trash" type="button" name="delete" id="delete" onclick="deleterecords();">
	<spring:message code="common.button.delete" />
</button>

Spring MVC & Spring Data JPA side

create a method in your JPA Repository class

public interface WelcomeRepository extends JpaRepository<Welcome, Long>{

     // this method is similar to select * from welcome where id in (?, ?, ?)
     public List<Welcome> findByIdIn(Long[] id);
}

Lets go to Service layer

@Override
public void deleteWelcomeByIds(Long[] ids) {
	List<Welcome> list = welcomeRepository.findByIdIn(ids);
	welcomeRepository.deleteInBatch(list);
}

delete in batch is a common function that already exist in Spring Data JPA

Lets have a look in Controller class

@RequestMapping(value = "${deletebatch}/{ids}", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String deleteBatchHandler(@PathVariable Long[] ids, Model model) {
	welcomeService.deleteWelcomeByIds(ids);
	return defaultHandler(model);
}

Good Luck !