hibernate - Spring Data JPA sorting on nested collection -

i have following domain objects:

@entity public class item {     @id    @generatedvalue(strategy = generationtype.auto)    private long id;    private string name;     @onetomany    private list<propertydefinition> propertydefinitions; }  @entity public class propertydefinition {     @id    private long id;     private final string name;    private final string value; } 

i sort items example "title" named propertydefinition.value

how spring data jpa?

iterable<item> items = itemrepository.findall(new sort("???")); 

example code can found here:
https://github.com/altfatterz/sort-poc/

any feedback appreciated.

you can use jpa or hibernate @orderby annotation:

@onetomany @orderby("value asc") // sort value asc private list<propertydefinition> propertydefinitions; 

otherwise, can create own query sort them criteria or hql query.