How to return an entity with chosen columns using Criteria

Question

I\'m really new with Hibernate. I want a List using hibernate criteria, but only with fields User id and name filled up. Is that possible? Something

Answer 1

Typically you don't want to partially load the properties of an object. But if you must, see this:

http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/stable/core/manual/en-US/html/performance.html#performance-fetching-lazyproperties

For plain reporting-like behaviour you could use entity queries:

sess.createSQLQuery("SELECT ID, NAME, BIRTHDATE FROM CATS").addEntity(Cat.class);

http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/stable/core/manual/en-US/html/querysql.html#d0e17633