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

The proper way is to use Hibernate Transformers:

public class StudentDTO {
private String studentName;
private String courseDescription;

public StudentDTO() { }  
...
} 

.

List resultWithAliasedBean = s.createSQLQuery(
"SELECT st.name as studentName, co.description as courseDescription " +
"FROM Enrolment e " +
"INNER JOIN Student st on e.studentId=st.studentId " +
"INNER JOIN Course co on e.courseCode=co.courseCode")
.setResultTransformer( Transformers.aliasToBean(StudentDTO.class))
.list();

StudentDTO dto =(StudentDTO) resultWithAliasedBean.get(0);

Iterating througth Object[] is redundant and would have some performance penalty. Detailed information about transofrmers usage you will find here: Transformers for HQL and SQL

If you are looking for even more simple solution you can use out-of-the-box-map-transformer:

List iter = s.createQuery(
"select e.student.name as studentName," +
"       e.course.description as courseDescription" +
"from   Enrolment as e")
.setResultTransformer( Transformers.ALIAS_TO_ENTITY_MAP )
.iterate();

String name = (Map)(iter.next()).get("studentName");