Doubt regarding JPA namedquery

Question

I am trying to execute a namedquery

@NamedQuery(name=\"getEmployeeDetails\",query=\"select e.username,e.email,e.image,e.firstname,e.lastname from Employee e         


        

Answer 1

Below is the sample query which fetches only the required fields, but have to make such constructor for it.

Query : SELECT NEW package_name.Employee(e.username,e.email,e.image,e.firstname,e.lastname) FROM Employee e where e.empid=?1;

It will return Employee entity with selected fields & remaining will have default values.

Answer 2

Inspect the returned type by calling .getClass() on a returned object. I'd guess it's an array.

But this is not really a good way to use JPA. Select the whole entity and then just don't use what you don't need. It's not such a performance hit.