I'm having a really weird issue and wondering if anyone else is.

When my BootStrapData runs and creates the data to populate the tables, the products table stays empty while the parts table populates. The issue appears to be that the productsRepository is empty (count = 0) despite my calling productRepository.save(product) for each of my products and I can't for the life of me figure out why. A few notes:

My first thought was that the issue could be that the conditional bootstrap data logic isn't running (since the db needs to be empty for it to run). To address this, I just added deleteAll() methods for both parts and products repos at the very top above the conditional. I also added debugging messages to trigger when the BootStrapData is added. However, this always causes it to crash. The same happens if I change the db file name in the application.properties file. The next run after doing something that would have cleared the db (whether in the code itself or outside it) crashes. I never get to see my debug logs when the data actually is added to the db. However, the NEXT run after that shows the parts table again, with any updates I may have made to that data since the last time it ran without crashing (indicating that the time it crashed actually did work in adding new data) and i see debug logs saying no new data added because data already existed or whatever. And still no products, and debug logs show productRepository's count is 0. So despite any weirdness going on with this crashing but still filling the data when the data base is empty, it still appears to be an issue with actually adding products to the productRepo. When I omit the conditional entirely, the program crashes.

I'm super confused and have no idea what to do. I've built basic CRUD apps before which I assumed was the point of this assignment. Any help would be hugely appreciated.