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 where e.empid=?1")
Now when I execute this query in a EJB 3.0 Session Bean what is the object I should return.I tried returning Listits returning a Vector which creates a classcast exception.The employee table contains fields like password and other confidential details which I don't want to fetch.So I am not using select e from Employee e.
I am learning JPA can anyone help.
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.
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.
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i would like to know if you have any idea how i can achieve this, considering a query stored as string in the configuration file.
I tried to use SqlQuery applied to the DBSet, but the problem is that SqlQuery requires me to select all properties of the required entities in my query. If i don't consider any column, it will complain because is not able to map the query to the entities.
I don't want to select all properties of the entities i want to query.
Thanks
If you are using EF then why not use Database.ExecuteSqlCommand()? It's in the System.Data.Entity namespace.
For example:
int result = db.Database.ExecuteSqlCommand("Non SELECT SQL etc...");
Well, I ended up implementing a mechanism using reflection that basically receives a group of fields to select, and constructs dynamic objects with those fields, so when applied the query with the joins between the entities, will only bring the fields I am looking for.
So, considering Entity1, Entity2, Entity3 with the following relationship
<b>Entity1</b>{
<br/> Entity1Name, <br/> List<*Entity2*> Entity2Items, <br/> etc..
<br/>}
and
<b>Entity2</b> { <br/> Entity2Name, <br/> List<*Entity3*> Entity3Items <br/>}
I can store e.g. the following query in the configuration file, and retrieve the information:
"Entity1.Entity1Name", <br/>
"Entity1.Entity2Items.Entity2Name", <br/>
"Entity1.Entity2Items.Entity3Items.Entity3Name"
Anyway, I was just trying to see if there would be any solution out-of-the-box that would require minimal code changes.
Thank you.
I want to learn if we could write a query that has a condition like
List<Entity> findbyField1EqualsField2();
This method should not take any parameter . It should fetch entities which has a field1 equals field2. It is just a simple sql :
select * from entity where field1=field2.
But I could not find any solution yet. Thanks.
Create an operation with a query as next:
#Query("select t from entity t where t.field1 like t.field2")
List<T> findByField1LikeField2();
I don't think findByField1LikeField2()works.... you would need to do it passing a param findByField1Like(String param) and for this maybe you would need to load the entity before to get the value of field2.
Has anyone got an idea why JPA Provider - Eclipselink (using version 2.6.0) generates query like:
SELECT ID FROM OPERATION WHERE (ID = ?);
or
SELECT ID FROM SUBSCRIPTION WHERE (ID = ?);
Why it needs to get ID providing an ID...
Maybe 1st or 2nd level Cache synchronization?
Maybe my queries are inaccurate...
In my queries I never ask directly this to execute - I use JPQL and never ask for ID giving some ID.
I have quite complex model and queries so I see no point in providing full code (or only if U really insist but I dont think it will help a lot).
Using Oracle 12c DB.
We have encountered the same issue with our Java application using EclipseLink 2.5.2. Specifically, we saw it whenever we inserted a new entity that had a M:1 relationship with another entity. A simplified use case would be:
A a = new A(); // the new entity
B b = lookupB(); // get existing entity from database
a.setB(b); // set M:1 relationship
em.persist(a); // save
In this case, we would always see a query for B (i.e., SELECT ID FROM B WHERE ID = #). After some research, we traced it down to the existence checking that EclipseLink performs before merging records.
We found that annotating the entity class for B with #ExistenceChecking(ExistenceType.ASSUME_EXISTENCE) prevented EclipseLink from running the query.
For a further discussion of this, see this related post.
Previously when I wanted obtain related data in an sql query I would join tables, however now in linq to entities I want to get data from a table that is related to the table through another table. I don't know how to perform this sort of query in linq to entities. If someone could help that would be good.
The example is a table named person which has a relationship to table users which is related to table roles. I want to be able to obtain a person that has a particular role. Since person is only related to user and indirectly through user to role, I'm not sure of the query. Also using navigation properties doesn't get me all the way there either.
Any information would be good. Here is an example of the database structure:
db structure http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/4540/persons.jpg
If you using the generator in VS (ie, drap drop the data table and diagram and keys are all set in db), then the thing you are asking could be already there automatically.
e.g.
from Person in Context.Persons
where Person.Name == "PETER PAN"
select Person.User.Role.RoleName;
Exact name need to refer to the code generator, but this is the idea. Linq to entities will help to map foreign keys and those for you.
Edit
Actually I haven't tried using include. But according to msdn:include method, the include should show the object hierarchy to work. So, for your query to work, try:
from c in db.Persons.Include("aspnet_Users").Include("aspnet_Roles")
where c.aspnet_Users.aspnet_Roles.RoleName == "Role" select c
And moreover, will you consider start from roles?
from r in db.aspnet_Roles
where r.RoleName == "ROLE"
select r.aspnet_Users.Persons
(from u in db.aspnet_Users.Include("Person")
from c in db.aspnet_Roles
where c.RoleName == "role"
select u.Persons);
Worked it out thanks for trying though.
I've created a function import that returns the results of a stored proceedure as one of my entities. however I can't seem to traverse my through navigation properties to access the data in other entities. I know that you can use include() for objectQueries but can't find anything that will force the EF to load my relations for entity results of function imports.
Any ideas??
Thanks in advance.
This is not possible in EF 1.0
The reason is that EF will consider stored procedure values to be just values and not navigation properites.
For example, Employee entity has multiple Order entities. In Order you have a property called EmployeeID. When the database fills your query using include statements, it creates 1 projection query in SQL to populate all of the Order data that a particular Employee could have.
So if I said
var employee = context.Employees.Include("Orders").Where(e => e.ID == 1).First();
var orders = employee.Orders;
The SQL for the first query will create a projection query which will contain orders where the EmployeeID = 1.
Now when your stored procedure runs, this can do any code behind the scenes (in otherwords it can return any set of data). So when SQL runs the stored procedure, it just runs the code in that stored procedure and does not have any knowledge that EmployeeID on Order is an FK to that property. Additionally, if your stored procedure returns an Employee entity, then you are looking at another scenario where you will not even have an OrderID to pursue.
To work around this though, you can setup your query in EF using Include statements that can mirror any stored procedure. If you use the proper mix of .Select and .Include statements you should be able to do the same thing.