What is the “proper” way to cast Hibernate Query.list() to List?

Question

I\'m a newbie with Hibernate, and I\'m writing a simple method to return a list of objects matching a specific filter. List seemed a natural return t

Answer 1

You use a ResultTransformer like that:

public List activeObjects() {
    Session s = acquireSession();
    Query   q = s.createQuery("from foo where active");
    q.setResultTransformer(Transformers.aliasToBean(Foo.class));
    return (List) q.list();
}