JPA : How to convert a native query result set to POJO class collection

Question

I am using JPA in my project.

I came to a query in which I need to make join operation on five tables. So I created a native query which returns five fields.

Answer 1

First declare following annotations:

@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
public @interface NativeQueryResultEntity {
}

@Target(ElementType.FIELD)
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
public @interface NativeQueryResultColumn {
    int index();
}

Then annotate your POJO as follows:

@NativeQueryResultEntity
public class ClassX {
    @NativeQueryResultColumn(index=0)
    private String a;

    @NativeQueryResultColumn(index=1)
    private String b;
}

Then write annotation processor:

public class NativeQueryResultsMapper {

    private static Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(NativeQueryResultsMapper.class);

    public static  List map(List objectArrayList, Class genericType) {
        List ret = new ArrayList();
        List mappingFields = getNativeQueryResultColumnAnnotatedFields(genericType);
        try {
            for (Object[] objectArr : objectArrayList) {
                T t = genericType.newInstance();
                for (int i = 0; i < objectArr.length; i++) {
                    BeanUtils.setProperty(t, mappingFields.get(i).getName(), objectArr[i]);
                }
                ret.add(t);
            }
        } catch (InstantiationException ie) {
            log.debug("Cannot instantiate: ", ie);
            ret.clear();
        } catch (IllegalAccessException iae) {
            log.debug("Illegal access: ", iae);
            ret.clear();
        } catch (InvocationTargetException ite) {
            log.debug("Cannot invoke method: ", ite);
            ret.clear();
        }
        return ret;
    }

    // Get ordered list of fields
    private static  List getNativeQueryResultColumnAnnotatedFields(Class genericType) {
        Field[] fields = genericType.getDeclaredFields();
        List orderedFields = Arrays.asList(new Field[fields.length]);
        for (int i = 0; i < fields.length; i++) {
            if (fields[i].isAnnotationPresent(NativeQueryResultColumn.class)) {
                NativeQueryResultColumn nqrc = fields[i].getAnnotation(NativeQueryResultColumn.class);
                orderedFields.set(nqrc.index(), fields[i]);
            }
        }
        return orderedFields;
    }
}

Use above framework as follows:

String sql = "select a,b from x order by a";
Query q = entityManager.createNativeQuery(sql);

List results = NativeQueryResultsMapper.map(q.getResultList(), ClassX.class);