Hibernate/persistence without @Id

Question

I have a database view that yields a result set that has no true primary key. I want to use Hibernate/Persistence to map this result set onto Java objects. Of course, becaus

Answer 1

Instead of searching for workarounds in Hibernate it might be easier to add dummy id in your database view. Let's assume that we have PostgreSQL view with two columns and none of them is unique (and there is no primary key as Postgres doesn't allow to make PK or any other constraints on views) ex.

| employee_id | project_name |
|:------------|:-------------|
| 1           | Stack01      |
| 1           | Jira01       |
| 1           | Github01     |
| 2           | Stack01      |
| 2           | Jira01       |
| 3           | Jira01       |
------------------------------

Which is represented by the following query:

CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW someschema.vw_emp_proj_his AS
    SELECT DISTINCT e.employee_id,
                    pinf.project_name
    FROM someschema.project_info pinf
    JOIN someschema.project_employee pe ON pe.proj_id = pinf.proj_id
    JOIN someschema.employees e ON e.employee_id = pe.emloyee_id

We can add dummy id using row_number():

SELECT row_number() OVER (ORDER BY subquery.employee_id) AS row_id

like in this example:

CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW someschema.vw_emp_proj_his AS
SELECT row_number() OVER (ORDER BY subquery.employee_id) AS row_id,
       subquery.employee_id,
       subquery.project_name
FROM
  (SELECT DISTINCT e.employee_id,
                   pinf.project_name
   FROM someschema.project_info pinf
   JOIN someschema.project_employee pe ON pe.proj_id = pinf.proj_id
   JOIN someschema.employees e ON e.employee_id = pe.emloyee_id ) subquery;

And the table will look like this:

| row_id      | employee_id | project_name |
|:------------|:------------|:-------------|
| 1           | 1           | Stack01      |
| 2           | 1           | Jira01       |
| 3           | 1           | Github01     |
| 4           | 2           | Stack01      |
| 5           | 2           | Jira01       |
| 6           | 3           | Jira01       |
-------------------------------------------

Now we can use row_id as @Id in JPA/Hibernate/Spring Data:

@Id
@Column(name = "row_id")
private Integer id;

Like in the example:

@Entity
@Table(schema = "someschema", name = "vw_emp_proj_his")
public class EmployeeProjectHistory {

    @Id
    @Column(name = "row_id")
    private Integer id;

    @Column(name = "employee_id")
    private Integer employeeId;

    @Column(name = "project_name")
    private String projectName;

//Getters, setters etc.

}