Spring data jpa, jparepository returning list of string in place of DTO object

Question

I have a interface implementing JPARepository and have three methods, one of them is having a custom @Query.

public interface PersonRepository extends JpaRepository<Person, Long> {

  List<Person> getPersonBycountryCode(String countryCode);

  List<Person> findByCountryCodeAndCity(String string,String city);

  @Query(value = "SELECT person.firstName as firstName, person.lastName as lastName, person.countryCode as country, person.city as city,"
              + " SQRT(POWER((69.1 * (person.age - :age )) , 2 )"
              + " + POWER((53 * (person.experience - :experience )), 2)) as eligibility"
              + " FROM Person person"
              + " ORDER BY eligibility ASC")
  List<PersonDetailsDto> findPersonDetailsByEligibility(
          @Param("age") BigDecimal age,
          @Param("experience") BigDecimal experience,
          Pageable pageable
  );
}

Problem is: method with @Query does not return list of PersonDetailsDto but return list of list of strings (List<List<String>>).

PersonDetailsDto is a POJO class with all the variables described in a query output (firstName, lastName, country, city, eligibility) and also a constructor with all the variables as Parameters. Other two methods does return list of Person object.

Any idea?

Answer 1

Actually JpaRepository<Person, Long> means that, you can use only Person as your dto in jpa repository methods.

For your solution you can just define your dto interface inside the repository :

public interface PersonRepository extends JpaRepository<Person, Long> {

  List<Person> getPersonBycountryCode(String countryCode);

  List<Person> findByCountryCodeAndCity(String string,String city);

  @Query(value = "SELECT person.firstName as firstName, person.lastName as lastName, person.countryCode as country, person.city as city,"
              + " SQRT(POWER((69.1 * (person.age - :age )) , 2 )"
              + " + POWER((53 * (person.experience - :experience )), 2)) as eligibility"
              + " FROM Person person"
              + " ORDER BY eligibility ASC")
  List<PersonDetailsDto> findPersonDetailsByEligibility(
          @Param("age") BigDecimal age,
          @Param("experience") BigDecimal experience,
          Pageable pageable
  );

 //define the interface here
 public interface PersonDetailsDto{
   public String getFirstName();
   public String getLastName();
   public String getCountry();
   public String getCity();
   public Integer getEligibility();
 }

}