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

Old style using ResultSet

@Transactional(readOnly=true)
public void accessUser() {
    EntityManager em = this.getEntityManager();
    org.hibernate.Session session = em.unwrap(org.hibernate.Session.class);
    session.doWork(new Work() {
        @Override
        public void execute(Connection con) throws SQLException {
            try (PreparedStatement stmt = con.prepareStatement(
                    "SELECT u.username, u.name, u.email, 'blabla' as passe, login_type as loginType FROM users u")) {
                ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery();
                ResultSetMetaData rsmd = rs.getMetaData();
                for (int i = 1; i <= rsmd.getColumnCount(); i++) {
                    System.out.print(rsmd.getColumnName(i) + " (" + rsmd.getColumnTypeName(i) + ") / ");
                }
                System.out.println("");
                while (rs.next()) {
                    System.out.println("Found username " + rs.getString("USERNAME") + " name " + rs.getString("NAME") + " email " + rs.getString("EMAIL") + " passe " + rs.getString("PASSE") + " email " + rs.getInt("LOGIN_TYPE"));
                }
            }
        }
    });
}

Answer 2

We have resolved the issue using following way :

   //Add actual table name here in Query
    final String sqlQuery = "Select a.* from ACTORS a"
    // add your entity manager here 
    Query query = entityManager.createNativeQuery(sqlQuery,Actors.class);
    //List contains the mapped entity data.
    List<Actors> list = (List<Actors>) query.getResultList();

Answer 3

JPA provides an SqlResultSetMapping that allows you to map whatever returns from your native query into an Entity or a custom class.

EDIT JPA 1.0 does not allow mapping to non-entity classes. Only in JPA 2.1 a ConstructorResult has been added to map return values a java class.

Also, for OP's problem with getting count it should be enough to define a result set mapping with a single ColumnResult

Answer 4

Since others have already mentioned all the possible solutions, I am sharing my workaround solution.

In my situation with Postgres 9.4, while working with Jackson,

//Convert it to named native query.
List<String> list = em.createNativeQuery("select cast(array_to_json(array_agg(row_to_json(a))) as text) from myschema.actors a")
                   .getResultList();

List<ActorProxy> map = new ObjectMapper().readValue(list.get(0), new TypeReference<List<ActorProxy>>() {});

I am sure you can find same for other databases.

Also FYI, JPA 2.0 native query results as map

Answer 5

if you are using Spring, you can use org.springframework.jdbc.core.RowMapper

Here is an example:

public List query(String objectType, String namedQuery)
{
  String rowMapper = objectType + "RowMapper";
  // then by reflection you can instantiate and use. The RowMapper classes need to follow the naming specific convention to follow such implementation.
} 

Answer 6

Using Hibernate :

@Transactional(readOnly=true)
public void accessUser() {
    EntityManager em = repo.getEntityManager();
    org.hibernate.Session session = em.unwrap(org.hibernate.Session.class);
    org.hibernate.SQLQuery q = (org.hibernate.SQLQuery) session.createSQLQuery("SELECT u.username, u.name, u.email, 'blabla' as passe, login_type as loginType FROM users u")
        .addScalar("username", StringType.INSTANCE).addScalar("name", StringType.INSTANCE)
        .addScalar("email", StringType.INSTANCE).addScalar("passe", StringType.INSTANCE)
        .addScalar("loginType", IntegerType.INSTANCE)
        .setResultTransformer(Transformers.aliasToBean(User2DTO.class));

    List<User2DTO> userList = q.list();
}