Hibernate Native SQL Query retrieving entities and collections

Question

This is my situation, I have two basic POJO\'s which I\'ve given a simple hibernate mapping :

Person
  - PersonId
  - Name
  - Books

Book
  - Code
  - Descr         


        

Answer 1

Should your query be on the person table instead of person_books?

session.createSQLQuery("select * from person")  
   .addEntity("person", Person.class)
   .addJoin("book", "person.books")
   .list();

Answer 2

HHH-2831 Native SQL queries with addJoin or return object arrays instead of single Entities

This behaviour is caused by a known bug. Doh, should have searched harder!

Answer 3

Expanding on Mathews answer. To force hibernate to only return a list of persons do:

List<Person> peopleWithBooks = session.createSQLQuery(
   "select {p.*}, {b.*} from person p, book b where <complicated join>").
     .addEntity("p", Person.class)
     .addJoin("b", "p.books")
     .addEntity("p", Person.class)
     .setResultTransformer(Criteria.DISTINCT_ROOT_ENTITY)
     .list();

Associated Book entities will be fetched and initialized without a additional call to the db.

The duplicate

 .addEntity("p", Person.class)

is necessary because

 .setResultTransformer(Criteria.DISTINCT_ROOT_ENTITY)

operates on the last entity added.

Answer 4

AFAIK, it is not possible to get a "merged" entity back from a SQL query. You will get back only an object array. What I did in this situation was that I created a new constructor for my merged entity that took an array of objects as it's argument. Then I constructed that manually.

Answer 5

The following works for me:

session.createSQLQuery("select p.*, b.* from person p, book b where <complicated join>").
.addEntity("person", Person.class).addJoin("book", "person.books").list();

This returns an Object[] containing a list of Person, each of which contains a list of Books. It does this in a single SQL select. I think your problem is that you don't specifically alias person to anything.

EDIT: The method returns an Object[], but the array is populated with Person instances, and only Person instances.

If Hibernate doesn't understand how to map to your classes or if it can't understand how to map the join, it will return a list of objects. Make sure you only have one Person/Book combination on each line.