how to write Hibernate Criteria to take nested objects by Projection List?

Question

I want to take Nested object values in Hibernate Projection List. I having Pojo 'Charge' and 'Tariff' class with OneToMany and ManyToOne relations.

My sample code is as following:

Charge

private String id;              
private Tariff tariff;
private String name;

@OneToMany(cascade=   {CascadeType.ALL},fetch=FetchType.EAGER,mappedBy="charge")
public Tariff getTariff() {
    return tariff;
}
public void setTariff(Tariff tariff) {
    this.tariff = tariff;
}

Tariff

private String id;
private String amount;
private Charge charge;

@ManyToOne(cascade={CascadeType.PERSIST},fetch=FetchType.EAGER)
@JoinColumn(name="charge_id")
public Charge getCharge() {
    return charge;
}
public void setCharge(Charge charge) {
    this.charge = charge;
}

I want to take amount value from tariff by charge model.

I write sql criteria that works ie.

SELECT tariff.amount,charge.name FROM charge,tariff WHERE charge.name LIKE 's%';

and i tried with following criteria.

Criteria cr = getSession().createCriteria(Charge.class,"charge")
    .createAlias("charge.tariff","tariff")
    .setProjection(Projections.projectionList()
    .add(Projections.property("chargeName"),"chargeName")
    .add(Projections.property("id"),"id")
    .add(Projections.property("tariff.amount"),"amount"))
    .add(Restrictions.like("chargeName", name+"%"))
    .setResultTransformer(Transformers.aliasToBean(Charge.class));
     return  cr.list(); 

I just check with restclient it returns null Value. How to write for Criteria for this sql Query ?

Answer 1

My solution is very basic. It's not as clean as a proper result transformer but it's useful when you just need to do a quick projection for a few properties.

Instead of .add(Projections.property("tariff.amount"),"amount")) type .add(Projections.property("tariff.amount"),"tariffAmount"))

Then, just add a setter on your root object "setTariffAmount".

public void setTariffAmount(String tariffAmount) {
  this.tariff = (this.tariff==null) ? new Tariff() : tariff;
  tariff.setAmount(tariffAmount);
}

The drawback is that it "dirties" your object with extra methods.

Answer 2

I've experienced this kind of requirement. I tried to get nested objects as nested objects using Transformers.aliasToBean, which will not work. By default, Transformers.aliasToBean don't have the capability to select nested object as nested object.

You can take a look at my question

Using Projecions to fetch a particular column from child table

To get Nested object as nested object, you need a Custom Transformer which is capable of doing that.

Here's a Custom Transformer written by samiandoni

https://github.com/samiandoni/AliasToBeanNestedResultTransformer

From the provided Readme in that link

class Person {
  private Long id;
  private String name;
  private Car car;
  // getters and setters
}

class Car {
  private Long id;
  private String color;
  // getters and setters
}

List<Person> getPeople() {
  ProjectionList projections = Projections.projectionList()
    .add(Projections.id().as("id"))
    .add(Projections.property("name").as("name"))
    .add(Projections.property("c.id").as("car.id"))
    .add(Projections.property("c.color").as("car.color"));

  Criteria criteria = getCurrentSession().createCriteria(Person.class)
    .createAlias("car", "c")
    .setProjection(projections)
    .setResultTransformer(new AliasToBeanNestedResultTransformer(Person.class));

  return (List<Person>) criteria.list();
}

// each car of Person will be populated

The above transformer is capable of Fetching first level Nested object as Nested object and it doesn't support further deep nested objects. So after some digging I've found another Custom transformer which is capable of Fetching deep Nested objects as Nested objects

Note:

Author: Miguel Resendiz

import java.lang.reflect.Field;
import java.lang.reflect.ParameterizedType;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;

import org.hibernate.HibernateException;
import org.hibernate.property.PropertyAccessor;
import org.hibernate.property.PropertyAccessorFactory;
import org.hibernate.property.Setter;
import org.hibernate.transform.AliasToBeanResultTransformer;
import org.hibernate.transform.AliasedTupleSubsetResultTransformer;
import org.hibernate.transform.ResultTransformer;

/**
 * Help to transform alises with nested alises
 * 
 * @author Miguel Resendiz
 * 
 */
public class AliasToBeanNestedResultTransformer extends
AliasedTupleSubsetResultTransformer {

    private static final long serialVersionUID = -8047276133980128266L;

    private static final int TUPE_INDEX = 0;
    private static final int ALISES_INDEX = 1;
    private static final int FIELDNAME_INDEX = 2;

    private static final PropertyAccessor accessor = PropertyAccessorFactory
            .getPropertyAccessor("property");

    private final Class<?> resultClass;

    private Object[] entityTuples;
    private String[] entityAliases;

    private Map<String, Class<?>> fieldToClass = new HashMap<String, Class<?>>();
    private Map<String, List<?>> subEntities = new HashMap<String, List<?>>();
    private List<String> nestedAliases = new ArrayList<String>();
    private Map<String, Class<?>> listFields = new HashMap<String, Class<?>>();

    public boolean isTransformedValueATupleElement(String[] aliases,
            int tupleLength) {
        return false;
    }

    public AliasToBeanNestedResultTransformer(Class<?> resultClass) {

        this.resultClass = resultClass;
    }

    public Object transformTuple(Object[] tuple, String[] aliases) {

        handleSubEntities(tuple, aliases);
        cleanParams(tuple, aliases);
        ResultTransformer rootTransformer = new AliasToBeanResultTransformer(
                resultClass);
        Object root = rootTransformer.transformTuple(entityTuples,
                entityAliases);

        loadSubEntities(root);

        cleanMaps();
        return root;
    }

    private void handleSubEntities(Object[] tuple, String[] aliases)
            throws HibernateException {
        String fieldName = "";
        String aliasName = "";
        try {
            for (int i = 0; i < aliases.length; i++) {
                String alias = aliases[i];
                if (alias.contains(".")) {

                    String[] sp = alias.split("\\.");
                    StringBuilder aliasBuilder = new StringBuilder();
                    for (int j = 0; j < sp.length; j++) {
                        if (j == 0) {
                            fieldName = sp[j];
                        } else {
                            aliasBuilder.append(sp[j]);
                            aliasBuilder.append(".");
                        }
                    }
                    aliasName = aliasBuilder.substring(0,
                            aliasBuilder.length() - 1);

                    nestedAliases.add(alias);
                    manageEntities(fieldName, aliasName, tuple[i]);
                }
            }
        } catch (NoSuchFieldException e) {
            throw new HibernateException("Could not instantiate resultclass: "
                    + resultClass.getName() + " for field name: " + fieldName
                    + " and alias name:" + aliasName);
        }
    }

    private Class<?> findClass(String fieldName) throws NoSuchFieldException,
    SecurityException {
        if (fieldToClass.containsKey(fieldName)) {
            return fieldToClass.get(fieldName);
        } else {
            Class<?> subclass = resultClass.getDeclaredField(fieldName)
                    .getType();

            if (subclass.equals(List.class) || subclass.equals(Set.class)) {
                if (subclass.equals(List.class)) {
                    listFields.put(fieldName, LinkedList.class);
                } else {
                    listFields.put(fieldName, HashSet.class);
                }
                Field field = resultClass.getDeclaredField(fieldName);
                ParameterizedType genericType = (ParameterizedType) field
                        .getGenericType();
                subclass = (Class<?>) genericType.getActualTypeArguments()[0];

            }
            fieldToClass.put(fieldName, subclass);
            return subclass;
        }
    }

    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    private void manageEntities(String fieldName, String aliasName,
            Object tupleValue) throws NoSuchFieldException, SecurityException {
        Class<?> subclass = findClass(fieldName);
        if (!subEntities.containsKey(fieldName)) {
            List<Object> list = new ArrayList<Object>();
            list.add(new ArrayList<Object>());
            list.add(new ArrayList<String>());
            list.add(FIELDNAME_INDEX, subclass);
            subEntities.put(fieldName, list);
        }
        ((List<Object>) subEntities.get(fieldName).get(TUPE_INDEX))
        .add(tupleValue);
        ((List<String>) subEntities.get(fieldName).get(ALISES_INDEX))
        .add(aliasName);
    }

    private void cleanParams(Object[] tuple, String[] aliases) {
        entityTuples = new Object[aliases.length - nestedAliases.size()];
        entityAliases = new String[aliases.length - nestedAliases.size()];

        for (int j = 0, i = 0; j < aliases.length; j++) {
            if (!nestedAliases.contains(aliases[j])) {
                entityTuples[i] = tuple[j];
                entityAliases[i] = aliases[j];
                ++i;
            }
        }
    }

    @SuppressWarnings({ "unchecked", "rawtypes" })
    private void loadSubEntities(Object root) throws HibernateException {
        try {
            for (String fieldName : subEntities.keySet()) {
                Class<?> subclass = (Class<?>) subEntities.get(fieldName).get(
                        FIELDNAME_INDEX);

                ResultTransformer subclassTransformer = new AliasToBeanNestedResultTransformer(
                        subclass);

                Object subObject = subclassTransformer.transformTuple(
                        ((List<Object>) subEntities.get(fieldName).get(0))
                        .toArray(),
                        ((List<Object>) subEntities.get(fieldName).get(1))
                        .toArray(new String[0]));

                Setter setter = accessor.getSetter(resultClass, fieldName);
                if (listFields.containsKey(fieldName)) {
                    Class<?> collectionClass = listFields.get(fieldName);
                    Collection subObjectList = (Collection) collectionClass
                            .newInstance();
                    subObjectList.add(subObject);
                    setter.set(root, subObjectList, null);
                } else {
                    setter.set(root, subObject, null);
                }
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            throw new HibernateException(e);
        }
    }

    private void cleanMaps() {
        fieldToClass = new HashMap<String, Class<?>>();
        subEntities = new HashMap<String, List<?>>();
        nestedAliases = new ArrayList<String>();
        listFields = new HashMap<String, Class<?>>();
    }

}

Just replace samiandoni's Transformer with the above transformer. It's capable of fetching further deep Nested Objects as respective Objects.