How to call Oracle Function or Procedure using Hibernate (EntityManager) or JPA

Question

I have an Oracle function which return sys-refcursor and when I call this function using Hibernate, I am getting the following exception.

Hibernate: { ? = ca         


        

Answer 1

JPA 2.1 early draft states that there will be support for stored procedures, according to Arun Gupta from Oracle.

Support for Stored Procedures: Added support for the invocation of predefined database functions and user-defined database functions to the Java Persistence query language.

There are different variants of EntityManager.createXXXStoredProcedureQuery methods that return a StoredProcedureQuery for executing a stored procedure. Just liked @NamedQuery, there is @NamedStoredProcedureQuery that specifies and names a stored procedure, its parameters, and its result type. This annotation can be specified on an entity or mapped superclass. The name specified in the annotation is then used in EntityManager.createNamedStoredProcedureQuery. The IN, OUT, and INOUT parameters can be set and used to retrieve values passed back from the procedure. For example:

@Entity
@NamedStoredProcedureQuery(name="topGiftsStoredProcedure", procedureName="Top10Gifts")
public class Product {
 . . .
}

// In your client

StoredProcedreQuery query = EntityManager.createNamedStoredProcedureQuery("topGiftsStoredProcedure");
query.registerStoredProcedureParameter(1, String.class, ParameterMode.INOUT);
query.setParameter(1, "top10");
query.registerStoredProcedureParameter(2, Integer.class, ParameterMode.IN);
query.setParameter(2, 100);
// there are other setParameter methods for defining the temporal type of a parameter
. . .
query.execute();
String response = query.getOutputParameterValue(1);

As for when the spec is going to be finalized, or when Hibernate will support JPA 2.1, I can't say. But it might be worth keeping an eye out.