Named SQL queries may be defined in the mapping document and called in exactly the same way as a named HQL query. In this case, we do
not
need to call addEntity()
.
<sql-query name="persons">
<return alias="person" class="eg.Person"/>
SELECT person.NAME AS {person.name},
person.AGE AS {person.age},
person.SEX AS {person.sex}
FROM PERSON person
WHERE person.NAME LIKE :namePattern
</sql-query>
List people = sess.getNamedQuery("persons")
.setString("namePattern", namePattern)
.setMaxResults(50)
.list();
The <return-join>
and <load-collection>
elements are used to join associations and define queries which initialize collections, respectively.
<sql-query name="personsWith">
<return alias="person" class="eg.Person"/>
<return-join alias="address" property="person.mailingAddress"/>
SELECT person.NAME AS {person.name},
person.AGE AS {person.age},
person.SEX AS {person.sex},
adddress.STREET AS {address.street},
adddress.CITY AS {address.city},
adddress.STATE AS {address.state},
adddress.ZIP AS {address.zip}
FROM PERSON person
JOIN ADDRESS adddress
ON person.ID = address.PERSON_ID AND address.TYPE='MAILING'
WHERE person.NAME LIKE :namePattern
</sql-query>
A named SQL query may return a scalar value. You must declare the column alias and Hibernate type using the <return-scalar>
element:
<sql-query name="mySqlQuery">
<return-scalar column="name" type="string"/>
<return-scalar column="age" type="long"/>
SELECT p.NAME AS name,
p.AGE AS age,
FROM PERSON p WHERE p.NAME LIKE 'Hiber%'
</sql-query>
You can externalize the resultset mapping informations in a <resultset>
element to either reuse them accross several named queries or through the setResultSetMapping()
API.
<resultset name="personAddress">
<return alias="person" class="eg.Person"/>
<return-join alias="address" property="person.mailingAddress"/>
</resultset>
<sql-query name="personsWith" resultset-ref="personAddress">
SELECT person.NAME AS {person.name},
person.AGE AS {person.age},
person.SEX AS {person.sex},
adddress.STREET AS {address.street},
adddress.CITY AS {address.city},
adddress.STATE AS {address.state},
adddress.ZIP AS {address.zip}
FROM PERSON person
JOIN ADDRESS adddress
ON person.ID = address.PERSON_ID AND address.TYPE='MAILING'
WHERE person.NAME LIKE :namePattern
</sql-query>
You can alternatively use the resultset mapping information in your hbm files directly in java code.
List cats = sess.createSQLQuery(
"select {cat.*}, {kitten.*} from cats cat, cats kitten where kitten.mother = cat.id"
)
.setResultSetMapping("catAndKitten")
.list();
16.2.1. Using return-property to explicitly specify column/alias names
With <return-property>
you can explicitly tell Hibernate what column aliases to use, instead of using the {}
-syntax to let Hibernate inject its own aliases.
<sql-query name="mySqlQuery">
<return alias="person" class="eg.Person">
<return-property name="name" column="myName"/>
<return-property name="age" column="myAge"/>
<return-property name="sex" column="mySex"/>
</return>
SELECT person.NAME AS myName,
person.AGE AS myAge,
person.SEX AS mySex,
FROM PERSON person WHERE person.NAME LIKE :name
</sql-query>
<return-property>
also works with multiple columns. This solves a limitation with the {}
-syntax which can not allow fine grained control of multi-column properties.
<sql-query name="organizationCurrentEmployments">
<return alias="emp" class="Employment">
<return-property name="salary">
<return-column name="VALUE"/>
<return-column name="CURRENCY"/>
</return-property>
<return-property name="endDate" column="myEndDate"/>
</return>
SELECT EMPLOYEE AS {emp.employee}, EMPLOYER AS {emp.employer},
STARTDATE AS {emp.startDate}, ENDDATE AS {emp.endDate},
REGIONCODE as {emp.regionCode}, EID AS {emp.id}, VALUE, CURRENCY
FROM EMPLOYMENT
WHERE EMPLOYER = :id AND ENDDATE IS NULL
ORDER BY STARTDATE ASC
</sql-query>
Notice that in this example we used <return-property>
in combination with the {}
-syntax for injection. Allowing users to choose how they want to refer column and properties.
If your mapping has a discriminator you must use <return-discriminator>
to specify the discriminator column.