JPA: How to get entity based on field value other than ID?

Question

In JPA (Hibernate), when we automatically generate the ID field, it is assumed that the user has no knowledge about this key. So, when obtaining the entity, user would query

Answer 1

In my Spring Boot app I resolved a similar type of issue like this:

@Autowired
private EntityManager entityManager;

public User findByEmail(String email) {
    User user = null;
    Query query = entityManager.createQuery("SELECT u FROM User u WHERE u.email=:email");
    query.setParameter("email", email);
    try {
        user = (User) query.getSingleResult();
    } catch (Exception e) {
        // Handle exception
    }
    return user;
}