Hello all and sorry for my English =)
I works with Hibernate using criteria API. Everything was fine, but I have several denormalized tables with data for reports, and I faced some troubles.
For one of that tables I created #Entity class for mapping like
#Entity
#Table(name= "table")
public class Report {
#Id
Integer id;
Integer product_id;
Integer warehouse_id;
String some_data;
}
with simple queries all works fine. But I need to make queries like pivot table or self join etc.
for example
select
t1.product_id,
t2.warehouse_id
from repost t1
join report t2
on t1.product_id = t2.product_id
and t1.warehoise_id = ?
where t1.some_data in (?)
Such query does not contain logical dependencies between entities like Primary_Key - Foreign_Key and can return custom object data (it can be Map<>, List<>, Pair<>, Long...)
Is it possible to make query like this without using HQL?
Thanks
ADDED
As I was understood it's not possible using HQL too
Related
Say I have the following Entity classes:
#Entity public class MyEntity {
#Id private String id;
#ManyToOne private MyOtherEntity myOtherEntity;
}
#Entity public class MyOtherEntity {
#Id private String id;
#Column private String name;
}
Now I want to do a query to get all the MyEntitys linked to a certain MyOtherEntity, I wonder the difference between the following 3 predicates:
cb.equal(root.get(MyEntity_.myOtherEntity), myOtherEntity);
cb.equal(root.get(MyEntity_.myOtherEntity).get(MyOtherEntity_.id), myOtherEntity.getId());
cb.equal(root.get(MyEntity_.myOtherEntity).get(MyOtherEntity_.name), myOtherEntity.getName());
How would the generated SQLs look like in each case? And which one is most efficient?
For a start I suggest to take the trouble and enable SQL logging in Hibernate while developing - see here. Knowing the exact statements Hibernate creates for your JPA queries is invaluable, e.g. you have a chance to spot N+1 query problems, excessive joins etc.
Having said that, in your case the statements should look like as follows:
cb.equal(root.get(MyEntity_.myOtherEntity), myOtherEntity) → SELECT ... FROM MyEntity WHERE MyEntity.myOtherEntity_id = ?. In cases like this, Hibernate usually knows to optimize and avoid the unnecessary join.
cb.equal(root.get(MyEntity_.myOtherEntity).get(MyOtherEntity_.id), myOtherEntity.getId()) → Should be like above; again Hibernate should know that the .get(MyOtherEntity_.id) is already in the table and avoid the unnecessay join.
I have seen Hibernate working the way I describe for the cases above. Definitely enable SQL logging to verify, there may be details for your own use case that make it behave in a different way!
cb.equal(root.get(MyEntity_.myOtherEntity).get(MyOtherEntity_.name), myOtherEntity.getName()) → Will definitely create a join because it cannot find myOtherEntity.name in the MyEntity table: SELECT ... FROM MyEntity e JOIN MyOtherEntity oe ON ... WHERE oe.name = ?
I'm using a legacy database. In my example, we retrieve a product which have some characteristics. In the db, we can find a product table, a characteristic table and a jointable for the manyToMany association.
The only field i need is the label of the characteristics. So, my Product entity will contains a list of characteristics as String. I would like to not create to many entities in order to not overload my sourcecode. Let's see the example :
#Entity
#Table(name = "product")
public class Product implements Serializable {
#Id
#Column(name = "id")
private Long id;
// all field of Product entity
#ElementCollection(targetClass = String.class)
#Formula(value = "(SELECT characteristic.label FROM a jointable JOIN b characteristic ON jointable.characteristic_id = characteristic.id WHERE jointable.product_id = id)")
private Set<String> characteristics = new HashSet<>();
// Getter / setter
}
To represent my characteristics, i tried to use the association of #Formula and #ElementCollection. As you can see, the names of tables (a and b in the query) does not match with my representation of these datas.
But, when I try to load a product, I get an error like "PRODUCT_CHARACTERISTICS table not found".
Here the generated SQL query executed by hibernate :
SELECT product0_.id AS id1_14_0_,
-- Other fields
characteri10_.product_id AS product_1_15_1__,
(SELECT characteristic.label
FROM a jointable JOIN b characteristic ON jointable.characteristic_id = characteristic.id
WHERE jointable.product_id = id) AS formula6_1__,
FROM product product0_
-- Other Joins
LEFT OUTER JOIN product_characteristics characteri10_ ON product0_.cdprd = characteri10_.product_cdprd
WHERE product0_.id = ?;
In the FROM part, we can refind the call of product_characteristics table (which not exist in the database).
So, my main question is the following : How can I get the list of characterics as entity attribute ? Can I reach this result with #Formula ?
Edit
In other words, i would like to load only one attribute from Many to Many mapping. I found an example here but it works only with the id (which can find in the jointable)
I assume that what you want to achieve here is reducing the amount of data that is fetched for a use case. You can leave your many-to-many mapping as it is, since you will need DTOs for this and I think this is a perfect use case for Blaze-Persistence Entity Views.
I created the library to allow easy mapping between JPA models and custom interface or abstract class defined models, something like Spring Data Projections on steroids. The idea is that you define your target structure(domain model) the way you like and map attributes(getters) via JPQL expressions to the entity model.
A DTO model for your use case could look like the following with Blaze-Persistence Entity-Views:
#EntityView(Product.class)
public interface ProductDto {
#IdMapping
Long getId();
String getName();
#Mapping("characteristics.label")
Set<String> getCharacteristicLabels();
}
Querying is a matter of applying the entity view to a query, the simplest being just a query by id.
ProductDto a = entityViewManager.find(entityManager, ProductDto.class, id);
The Spring Data integration allows you to use it almost like Spring Data Projections: https://persistence.blazebit.com/documentation/entity-view/manual/en_US/index.html#spring-data-features
Page<ProductDto> findAll(Pageable pageable);
The best part is, it will only fetch the state that is actually necessary!
I'm trying to learn JPA/Hibernate and I'm real green in this field. I tend to usually veer off and try things without knowing much about the API. So I decided to create a simple entity that retrieves information from multiple tables see this is easily implementable with JPA. The reason behind this is, if, hypothetically, the involving tables each has a few hundred columns and we only have a business need to retrieve a very few data, and we only need to focus on retrieval rather than inserts/updates/deletions, I would assume it is best to only retrieve the entire entity (specially if multiple rows need to be returned) then join them across other entities to derive a few columns.
I started up with two simple tables:
EMPLOYEES
EMPLOYEE_ID, EMAIL, DEPARTMENT_ID, MANAGER_ID, FIRST_NAME, etc...
DEPARTMENTS
DEPARTMENT_ID, DEPARTMENT_NAME, MANAGER_ID, etc...
I want my entity to retrieve only the following columns solely based on EMPLOYEES.EMPLOYEE_ID:
EMPLOYEES.EMPLOYEE_ID
EMPLOYEES.MANAGER_ID
EMPLOYEES.DEPARTMENT_ID
DEPARTMENT.DEPARTMENT_NAME
One thing to notice here is that EMPLOYEES.MANAGER_ID is a self-referencing foreign key to EMPLOYEES.EMPLOYEE_ID.
I might create the following...
#SecondaryTable(name="DEPARTMENTS",
pkJoinColumns=#PrimaryKeyJoinColumn(name="managerId",referencedColumnName="employeeId")
)
#Table(name="EMPLOYEES")
#Entity
public class EmployeesDepartment {
#Id
private String employeeId;
private String managerId;
private String email;
private int departmentId;
#Column(name="DEPARTMENT_NAME",table="DEPARTMENTS")
private String departmentDesc;
// Setters and getters
}
Obviously this doesn't give us the correct answer due to the fact that the join between the secondary table (DEPARTMENTS) occurs between its MANAGER_ID and EMPLOYEES.EMPLOYEE_ID, rather than DEPARTMENTS.MANAGER_ID = EMPLOYEES.MANAGER_ID.
I cannot replace referencedColumnName="employeeId" with referencedColumnName="managerId" as managerId of #Entity EmployeesDepartment is not a primary key of EMPLOYEES.
And I can't do the following:
#OneToOne
#JoinColumn(name="managerId",table="DEPARTMENTS",referencedColumnName="employeeId")
private String managerId;
My question is, how can I make my join to be on DEPARTMENTS.MANAGER_ID = EMPLOYEES.MANAGER_ID while the WHERE clause of the query is based on EMPLOYEES.EMPLOYEE.ID? In other word, how can I have the entity that is mapped to the following query:
SELECT
E.EMPLOYEE_ID,
E.MANAGER_ID,
E.DEPARTMENT_ID,
D.DEPARTMENT_NAME
FROM EMPLOYEES E LEFT OUTER JOIN DEPARTMENTS D ON E.MANAGER_ID = D.MANAGER_ID
WHERE E.EMPLOYEE_ID = ?
Or are there better solution with less side effects, e.g. order of updates of tables, loading, etc.?
Is there a way I can map a field in an hibernate object to be loaded with a table query?
As an example lets say Table_Message has fields id(int),message_key(varchar),message_content(Clob),language(varchar). This table will hold messages in different languages(locale).
And another table thats mapped to an entity using hibernate. Comments with fields id(int),comment_message_id(varchar),created_date(datetime). comment_message_id refers to Table_Message's message_key column.
EDIT: Table_Message is NOT a mapped Entity in hibernate
Assuming my comment class is
public class Comment
{
int id;
String message;
Date createdDate;
}
Is there a way to tell hibernate to load message by joining Comment table and Table_Message table by message_key with a default locale (for example 'en').
Basically is there a way to tell hibernate to load a field by running a specific query? And if so what is that way?
I know about writing a Custom SQL query for loading the entity. But since I'm using XDoclet there doesn't seem to be a way to do that. Also it will be very convenient if there's a way to do that for a single field.
I guess ResultTransformer may help you in this. Please check
http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/3.3/api/org/hibernate/transform/ResultTransformer.html
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6423948/resulttransformer-in-hibernate-return-null
You must join the tables by comment_message_id with message_key and further filter the result by language. I assume the message_key is unique.
As a side notice: you should use integer keys to have better performance.
You can try to write a database view in SQL and create an entity to opaque the view:
CREATE VIEW Comment_Table_Message AS
SELECT c.id, c.comment_message_id, c.created_date, m.id AS mid,
m.message_content, m.language
FROM Comment c, Table_Message m
WHERE c.comment_message_id = t.message_key;
Now you can create an entity CommentTableMessage and use JPQL to filter results by language:
SELECT x FROM CommentTableMessage x WHERE x.language=?1
If Table_Message was a Hibernate entity you would write (in JPA terms):
#Entity
public class Comment
{
int id;
#ManyToOne()
#JoinColumn(name="comment_message_id")
TableMessage tableMessage;
String message;
Date createdDate;
}
#Entity
public class TableMessage {
int id;
#Id
String messageKey;
bytes[] messageContent; //I don't know how you want to deal with Blobs?
String language;
}
Having that you can write a simple JPA Query: (Can you use JPA ? - next assumption)
SELECT c FROM Comment c WHERE c.tableMessage.language=?1
I have the following Entities (reduced and renamed for this example)
#Entity
public class Case {
#Id
private Long id;
#ManyToOne(optional=false)
private CourtConfiguration courtConfiguration;
#ElementCollection(fetch=FetchType.EAGER)
private List<String> caseNumbers;
}
Second Entity
#Entity
public class CourtConfiguration {
#Id
private Long id;
String countyId;
String referenceId;
....
}
I am trying to search using JPQL for all Cases that have a certain courtConfiguration countyId and have caseNumbers containing all of a provided set of important caseNumbers.
So my query needs the countyId and set of caseNumbers as parameters. Called countyId and importantCaseNumbers respectively.
I have tried and failed to get it to work.
My query looks like this
String query = "SELECT case FROM Case case JOIN case.caseNumbers caseNumbers WHERE ";
query += "case.caseConfiguration.countyId = :countyId ";
The bit above works until I add my caseNumber conditions.
I have tried a foreach importantNumbers to extend the query and as soon as the list of important numbers goes above one it doesn't work. No values get returned.
for (String importantCaseNum : importantCaseNumbers) {
query += " AND '"+importantCaseNum+"' in (caseNumbers)";
}
Any suggestions/pointers appreciated. I guess what I am looking for is a case.caseNumbers contains (importantNumbers) clause.
Update I have reverted to native SQL for my query as I didn't want to tie myself into hibernate by using HQL. Thanks to #soulcheck and #mikko for helping me out. I'll post up when the hibernate JPA fix is available.
Thanks
Paul
Syntactically correct way to build this JPQL query is with MEMBER OF. But because of problem reported in HHH-5209 it doesn't work with old Hibernate versions (fix version 4.1.8, 4.3.0.Beta1). According bug report HQL version of this query works, so your options includes at least:
Using JPQL query and switching to some other JPA implementation
Using HQL instead and sticking with Hibernate:
query += " AND '"+importantCaseNum+"' in elements(caseNumbers)";