Custom JpaRepository causing You have custom methods in interface XX but not provided

[apara]

I am trying to put some common methods into a "base" interface derived from JpaRepository:

@Transactional
public interface BaseRepository<T extends BaseModel> extends JpaRepository<T, Long> {
  @Transactional
  public T findByCode(String code);
}

Later in my final repository I extend this interface such as:

@Repository("brandRepository")
@Transactional
public interface BrandRepository extends BaseRepository<Brand> {
}

When I run this code, I get an exception:

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: You have custom methods in interface com.standardset.spring.repository.BrandRepository but not provided a custom implementation!
	at org.springframework.data.repository.support.RepositoryFactorySupport.validate(RepositoryFactorySupport.java:216)
	at org.springframework.data.repository.support.RepositoryFactorySupport.getRepository(RepositoryFactorySupport.java:130)
	at org.springframework.data.repository.support.RepositoryFactoryBeanSupport.getObject(RepositoryFactoryBeanSupport.java:107)
	at org.springframework.data.repository.support.RepositoryFactoryBeanSupport.getObject(RepositoryFactoryBeanSupport.java:36)

I understand that I probably need to provide an implementation for my BaseRepository, however, the findByCode(...) method is a finder that normally is implemented by the JpaRepository architecture, and I am not sure what I should do to make this work.

Can someone help me out of this jam?

Thanks.
-AP_

[gwa]

We have already have a discussion about that:
http://forum.springsource.org/showth...nd-inheritance