FilesystemSupplementedRepository (irida 22.09 API)

Type Parameters:

Type - The type of object this repository is storing

All Known Subinterfaces:

AnalysisOutputFileRepository, GenomeAssemblyRepository, ReferenceFileRepository, SequenceFileRepository

All Known Implementing Classes:

AnalysisOutputFileRepositoryImpl, FilesystemSupplementedRepositoryImpl, GenomeAssemblyRepositoryImpl, ReferenceFileRepositoryImpl, SequenceFileRepositoryImpl
```
@NoRepositoryBean
public interface FilesystemSupplementedRepository<Type extends VersionedFileFields<java.lang.Long> & IridaThing>
```
Custom implementation interface for writing the Path part of a SequenceFile to disk. The interface is left intentionally empty -- the custom implementation re-implements only the persisting methods defined as CrudRepository.save(Object).

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`Type`	`saveMetadata(Type entity)`	Save an entity without updating any of the `Path` entries within the file.

- Method Detail
  - saveMetadata
```
Type saveMetadata(Type entity)
```
    Save an entity without updating any of the Path entries within the file. WARNING, if you update the Path entries of this file and use this method, a new file revision will not be created in the file storage or database.
    
    Parameters:
    
    entity - the entity to save
    
    Returns:
    
    the saved entity