Spring Mongodb- Failed to instantiate bean class [java.util.List]: the specified class is an interface

My project uses Spring data mongodb. I did not have the error below until I did the editing in one of the documents, in which there is a field with an array of documents. It worked fine, but now I keep getting the error below.

An updated field I appeared in the POJO project class. I'm not sure how to clear this error, tried different things, but it didn’t work.

    SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet [appServlet] in context with path [/mongodproject] threw exception [Request processing failed; nested exception is org.springframework.data.mapping.model.MappingInstantiationException: Could not instantiate bean class [java.util.List]: Specified class is an interface] with root cause
org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could not instantiate bean class [java.util.List]: Specified class is an interface
    at org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils.instantiateClass(BeanUtils.java:101)
    at org.springframework.data.convert.ReflectionEntityInstantiator.createInstance(ReflectionEntityInstantiator.java:60)
    at org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.convert.MappingMongoConverter.read(MappingMongoConverter.java:232)
    at org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.convert.MappingMongoConverter.read(MappingMongoConverter.java:212)
    at org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.convert.MappingMongoConverter.readValue(MappingMongoConverter.java:1008)
    at org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.convert.MappingMongoConverter.access$100(MappingMongoConverter.java:75)
    at org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.convert.MappingMongoConverter$MongoDbPropertyValueProvider.getPropertyValue(MappingMongoConverter.java:957)
    at org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.convert.MappingMongoConverter.getValueInternal(MappingMongoConverter.java:713)

Here is my POJO class and Spring Repository.

Project POJO Class

@Document(collection="releases")
 public class Project {
@Id
private String id;
 ......
@Field("impapps")
private List<ImpactedApplications> impapps=new ArrayList<ImpactedApplications>();
    .....getters/setters
}   

ImpactedApplication POJO Class:

public class ImpactedApplications {

@Field("appid")
private String appId;
.....
@Field("repository")
private List<ScriptsRepo> rep=new ArrayList<ScriptsRepo>();
@Field("artifacts")
private List<Artifacts> artifacts=new ArrayList<Artifacts>();
     //getter and setters

}

Artifacts POJO Class

public class Artifacts {

    @Field("artifacttype")
    private String artifactType;
    @Field("documentlink")
    private String documentLink;
    @Field("arttestphase")
    private String artTestPhase;
    @Field("artifactname")
    private ArtifactsEnums artifactsNames;
    @Field("startdate")
    private String startDate;
    @Field("enddate")
    private String endDate;
    @Field("peerrev")
    private boolean peerReview;
    @Field("busrev")
    private boolean busReview;
    @Field("na")
    private boolean na;

Spring Repository Classes

public interface ProjectRepository extends Repository<Project, String> {

Project findById(String id);
List<Project> findByYearAndReleaseMonthNoOrderByProjectNameDesc(String year,String month, Sort sort);
Project findByYearAndReleaseMonthNoAndId(String year, String month,String id);

Whenever I call the above methods, I get an exception.

Below is what my document looks like.

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