Hi,
I started using spring-data-mongodb and I need to retrieve files from GrisFS, I'd like to know if the way I solved my use case is correct or if I'm missing something.

I have the user uploading files and these files go to GridFS. Later the user can select one of these files and I've a persistent entity which should contain a reference to this file that I want to be able to read later. What I want to achieve is that when I save the entity only a reference to the file is stored (since the file is already in GridFS) and when I retrieve the entity an instance of com.mongodb.gridfs.GridFSDBFile is retrieved.
This is my sample entity:
Code:
@Document
public class GridFSDBPdfSource implements PdfSource<GridFSDBFile> {

    private String password;
    private GridFSDBFile gridFSFile;
    ............
}
and this is my document:
Code:
{
	"_class" : "com.sejda.model.input.GridFSDBPdfSource",
	"password" : "the password",
	"gridFSFile_id" : ObjectId("4eb55b0789c35b2b3fffd516")
}
Now I managed to have the expected behavior creating custom converters and what I'd like to know if this is the right way to do it or if there is any way I can annotate the gridFSFile to have spring data automagically retrieve the gridFSFile when I retrieve the entity.
I tried annotating the field with DBRef but I ended up with a StackOverflow.
Thanks