JPA Named Query

In this section, you will read about the JPA Query, its types and how to use the JPA Named Query in your JPA application. JPA Query is powerful that means it has more additional criteria can be include in run time during executing the query.

Types of query:

1. Static query (Named query)
2. Dynamic query

Here, we are going to define static query (Named query). Native query is helpful for me. Following reason:

1. Named queries is a persistence provider might be able to pre-compile them. 
2. Pre-compiled queries find bugs before deployment.
3. Named queries are thread-safe. They are reused by many classes and instances.

For developing JPA Named Query, you need the following artifacts:

1. Database Table: student
2. Model Class: Student.java
3. Main Class: JPANamedQuery.java

Database Table: student

Model Class: Student.java

/**
* 
*/
package roseindia;

import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue;
import javax.persistence.Id;
import javax.persistence.NamedQueries;
import javax.persistence.NamedQuery;
import javax.persistence.Table;

/**
* @author Administrator
*
*/
@Entity
@Table(name="student")

@javax.persistence.NamedQuery(name="studentRecords", 
query="SELECT st FROM Student st WHERE st.sname= ?1 OR st.scourse= ?2")

public class Student {

@Id
@GeneratedValue
private int id;

/**
* @return the id
*/
public int getId() {
return id;
}

/**
* @param id the id to set
*/
public void setId(int id) {
this.id = id;
}

@Column(name="sname", length=100,nullable=false)
private String sname;

/**
* @return the sname
*/
public String getSname() {
return sname;
}

/**
* @param sname the sname to set
*/
public void setSname(String sname) {
this.sname = sname;
}

@Column(name="sroll",nullable=false)
private int sroll;

/**
* @return the sroll
*/
public int getSroll() {
return sroll;
}

/**
* @param sroll the sroll to set
*/
public void setSroll(int sroll) {
this.sroll = sroll;
}

@Column(name="scourse",length=10,nullable=false)
private String scourse;

/**
* @return the scourse
*/
public String getScourse() {
return scourse;
}

/**
* @param scourse the scourse to set
*/
public void setScourse(String scourse) {
this.scourse = scourse;
}
}

Main Class: JPANamedQuery.java

createNamedQuery(String name): This method creates an instance of Query to execute a named query. The named query have Java Persistence Query Language or Native SQL.

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