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Return number of rows affected in #Query UPDATE in java spring boot repository [duplicate]

How to get the number of records updated after executing a jpql query like
UPDATE Device d SET d.name =:Name WHERE d.locationId=:id

#Modifying
#Query("UPDATE Device d SET d.name =:Name WHERE d.locationId=:id")
int updateDeviceName(#Param("Name ") int Name ,
#Param("id") int id);
The return type of the method is an Integer, which equals the number of affected rows, but one can set it to void if this is not desired or necessary. add #Modifying(clearAutomatically = true) to ensure that the EntityManager is getting cleaned up from the outdated entries to ensure the freshness of data.
This ensures that the EntityManager is automatically cleared when the query has executed, ensuring that no entities are unsynchronized. This may be desirable in some situations, but it depends on the context in which the repository method is used, and thus you must be careful with this; it is easy to use such a method without noticing or remembering this side effect, and this could cause problems in your application. Hopefully unit tests would be in place to catch mistakes like this, but it may not be the case. So use this flag wisely.
Referrence:-number of records update after executing an update query

You can use executeUpdate() method to get count like this:
Query query = em.createQuery(
"UPDATE Device d SET d.name =:Name WHERE d.locationId=:id");
int updateCount = em.executeUpdate();

How to run a native SQL query in Spring without an entity and a JPA Repository?

I am trying to run some native SQL queries in my Spring application. I don´t have an entity or JpaRepository class. I know it's strange, but this is a microservice just to collect two count queries and send it to Kafka.
Well trust me, all I need is these two integers from the queries. I run these code and always returns 0. I can see in the logs that Hikari is connecting to the database, so I don't know what to do. Searched a lot, but all answers involved the #Query solution, which does not work for me.
#Repository
#AllArgsConstructor
public class ReportRepository {
private final EntityManager em;
public int numberOfAccounts() {
String sql = "SELECT count(*) FROM account";
Query query = em.createNativeQuery(sql);
System.out.println(query.getFirstResult());
return query.getFirstResult();
}
public int numberOfSubscriptions() {
String sql = "SELECT count(*) FROM subscriptions";
Query query = em.createNativeQuery(sql);
System.out.println(query.getFirstResult());
return query.getFirstResult();
}
}

If you have EntityManager, and from what you are saying it can connect to DB, try this way:
public int numberOfSubscriptions() {
// >> "subscriptions" has to be the exact name of your table
// if does not work, consider trying SUBSCRIPTIONS or Subscriptions
String sql = "SELECT count(*) FROM subscriptions";
Query query = em.createNativeQuery(sql);
// getSingleResult() instead :)
return ((Number) query.getSingleResult()).intValue();
}
There is this (a bit old) JavaDoc for Query.getFirstResult() :
The position of the first result the query object was set to retrieve. Returns 0 if setFirstResult was not applied to the query object
So, I'd say that is not the right method for your case.
Happy Hacking :)

You should be using JDBC instead of an Entity Manager. Under the JPA uses JDBC but it requires defined entites to work. JDBC allows you to manage the connection and run the raw SQL queries.
Here's a link for how to do it in Spring:
https://spring.io/guides/gs/relational-data-access/#_store_and_retrieve_data

fetching single column values in JPA

I want to get all the values from a particular column in JPA and store all values into a list. currently, I am using the below approach but I am getting records in something else format.can someone please help me out
Query q1 = factory.createNativeQuery("select * from booking_attendee where booking_id="+id);
List<String> em1=q1.getResultList();
return em1;
query otput
em=[[Ljava.lang.Object;#68606667, [Ljava.lang.Object;#2cd7f99a, [Ljava.lang.Object;#137a5a5, [Ljava.lang.Object;#a45cc1c, [Ljava.lang.Object;#61fdc06d, [Ljava.lang.Object;#72f5eee1, [Ljava.lang.Object;#4e536797]

If you want to create a native query for this, it is more about how to solve this in SQL. You do not say SELECT * which means all columns. You would have to say SELECT your_column_name to select only a specific column.
Query q1 = factory.createNativeQuery("SELECT your_column FROM booking_attendee");
List<String> em1 = q1.getResultList();
The WHERE clause could and should be defined with the parameter binding of JPA. There are several advantages concerning performance and SQL injection.
Named parameter binding is special to the persistence provider (e.g. Hibernate). The common way for JPA is using ? to let your code be portable to other providers.
Query q1 = factory.createNativeQuery("SELECT your_column FROM booking_attendee b WHERE b.booking_id = ?");
q1.setParameter(1, id);
List<String> em1 = q1.getResultList();
Native queries offer the possibilities to use original SQL. Like this, some features which are specific for your database could be used with this. Nevertheless, if you do not have very specific SQL code, you should also have a look in JPQL, the specific query language of JPA, and the JPA Criteria API which offers advantages when you want to refactor your code, shows errors during compile time and makes the dynamic creation of queries easier.

How to create native queries in Spring?

I have a spring application that should connect to an existing database and just query an entity for existence based on some attributes.
I don't want to create a #Entity class for this. But I still want to use the spring managed EntityManager etc.
When using Spring, what is the best approach to just query a select for that entity? Using em.createNamedQuery(QUERY); with String QUERY = "SELECT count(*) from my_table where username =: username AND email := email)";?

Answers from #predrag-maric and #pL4Gu33 are both correct but if you use JPA in your project (for example, Hibernate) you might consider using #NamedNativeQuery annotation as well.
More about named native queries.

simple example of native query
#PersistenceContext
EntityManager em;
public String test(Integer id)
{
Query query = em.createNativeQuery("SELECT name FROM Accounts where id=?");
query.setParameter(1,id);
return query.getSingleResult();
}

You can use this method from entitymanager. http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/6/api/javax/persistence/EntityManager.html#createNativeQuery%28java.lang.String%29

Use em.createNativeQuery(QUERY). Also, you'll have to use positional parameters (?1) instead of named parameters (:email), because only positional parameters are supported by JPA in native queries.

Dynamic Named Query in Entity class using JPQL example

I have a named query as below;
#NamedQuery(name = "MyEntityClass.findSomething", query = "SELECT item FROM MyTable mytbl")
Now I want to append dynamic sort clause to this query (based on UI parameters)
Can I get an example using JPQL for doing the same (like how to set a dynamic ORDER BY in the Entity class)
I have already tried using CriteriaQuery, but was looking for a JPQL implementation now.

NamedQueries are by definition NOT dynamic, it is not correct to change them programmatically.
So the way to go is to create a JPQL query (but not a named query) like this:
TypedQuery<MyEntity> query = em.createdQuery("SELECT item FROM MyEntity item ORDER BY "+sortingCol, MyEntity.class);
On the other hand, if you REALLY want to use the named query, you could do that the following way:
#NamedQuery(name = "MyEntityClass.findSomething", query = MyEntity.NAMED_QUERY)
#Entity
public class MyEntity {
public static final NAMED_QUERY= "SELECT item FROM MyTable mytbl";
//+your persistent fields/properties...
}
//and later in your code
TypedQuery<MyEntity> query = entityManager.createQuery(MyEntity.NAMED_QUERY + " ORDER BY " + sortingCol, MyEntity.class);

Complementing for JPA 2.1
As of JPA 2.1 it is possible to define named queries programmatically.
This can be achieved using entityManagerFactory.addNamedQuery(String name, Query).
Example:
Query q = this.em.createQuery("SELECT a FROM Book b JOIN b.authors a WHERE b.title LIKE :title GROUP BY a");
this.em.getEntityManagerFactory().addNamedQuery("selectAuthorOfBook", q);
// then use like any namedQuery
Reference here
This can be useful, for instance, if you have the orderby field defined as a application parameter. So, when the application starts up or on the first run of the query, you could define the NamedQuery with the defined OrderBy field.
On the other side, if your OrderBy can be changed anytime (or changes a lot), then you need dynamic queries instead of NamedQuery (static). It would not worth to (re)create a NamedQuery every time (by performance).

#NamedQuery
Persistence Provider converts the named queries from JPQL to SQL at deployment time.
Until now, there is no feature to create/update the query with #NamedQuery annotation at runtime.
On the other hand, you can use Reflection API, to change the annotation value at runtime. I think It is not solution, also it is not you wanted .
em.createQuery()
Persistence Provider converts the dynamic queries from JPQL to SQL every time it is invoked.
The main advantage of using dynamic queries is that the query can be created based on the user inputs.