So answer for Spring Data team, yes it should retu...

# spring

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So answer for Spring Data team, yes it should return null when returning T? and throw an exception when returning T, see also this documentation PR just created about this topic https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-data-commons/pull/253/commits/1f126600767afae33eb470010bb1c6bf4929cfad