how to write Hibernate Criteria to take nested objects by Projection List?

Question

I want to take Nested object values in Hibernate Projection List. I having Pojo \'Charge\' and \'Tariff\' class with OneToMany and ManyToOne relations.

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Answer 1

I've experienced this kind of requirement. I tried to get nested objects as nested objects using Transformers.aliasToBean, which will not work. By default, Transformers.aliasToBean don't have the capability to select nested object as nested object.

You can take a look at my question

Using Projecions to fetch a particular column from child table

To get Nested object as nested object, you need a Custom Transformer which is capable of doing that.

Here's a Custom Transformer written by samiandoni

https://github.com/samiandoni/AliasToBeanNestedResultTransformer

From the provided Readme in that link

class Person {
  private Long id;
  private String name;
  private Car car;
  // getters and setters
}

class Car {
  private Long id;
  private String color;
  // getters and setters
}

List getPeople() {
  ProjectionList projections = Projections.projectionList()
    .add(Projections.id().as("id"))
    .add(Projections.property("name").as("name"))
    .add(Projections.property("c.id").as("car.id"))
    .add(Projections.property("c.color").as("car.color"));

  Criteria criteria = getCurrentSession().createCriteria(Person.class)
    .createAlias("car", "c")
    .setProjection(projections)
    .setResultTransformer(new AliasToBeanNestedResultTransformer(Person.class));

  return (List) criteria.list();
}

// each car of Person will be populated

The above transformer is capable of Fetching first level Nested object as Nested object and it doesn't support further deep nested objects. So after some digging I've found another Custom transformer which is capable of Fetching deep Nested objects as Nested objects

Note:

Author: Miguel Resendiz

import java.lang.reflect.Field;
import java.lang.reflect.ParameterizedType;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;

import org.hibernate.HibernateException;
import org.hibernate.property.PropertyAccessor;
import org.hibernate.property.PropertyAccessorFactory;
import org.hibernate.property.Setter;
import org.hibernate.transform.AliasToBeanResultTransformer;
import org.hibernate.transform.AliasedTupleSubsetResultTransformer;
import org.hibernate.transform.ResultTransformer;

/**
 * Help to transform alises with nested alises
 * 
 * @author Miguel Resendiz
 * 
 */
public class AliasToBeanNestedResultTransformer extends
AliasedTupleSubsetResultTransformer {

    private static final long serialVersionUID = -8047276133980128266L;

    private static final int TUPE_INDEX = 0;
    private static final int ALISES_INDEX = 1;
    private static final int FIELDNAME_INDEX = 2;

    private static final PropertyAccessor accessor = PropertyAccessorFactory
            .getPropertyAccessor("property");

    private final Class resultClass;

    private Object[] entityTuples;
    private String[] entityAliases;

    private Map> fieldToClass = new HashMap>();
    private Map> subEntities = new HashMap>();
    private List nestedAliases = new ArrayList();
    private Map> listFields = new HashMap>();

    public boolean isTransformedValueATupleElement(String[] aliases,
            int tupleLength) {
        return false;
    }

    public AliasToBeanNestedResultTransformer(Class resultClass) {

        this.resultClass = resultClass;
    }

    public Object transformTuple(Object[] tuple, String[] aliases) {

        handleSubEntities(tuple, aliases);
        cleanParams(tuple, aliases);
        ResultTransformer rootTransformer = new AliasToBeanResultTransformer(
                resultClass);
        Object root = rootTransformer.transformTuple(entityTuples,
                entityAliases);

        loadSubEntities(root);

        cleanMaps();
        return root;
    }

    private void handleSubEntities(Object[] tuple, String[] aliases)
            throws HibernateException {
        String fieldName = "";
        String aliasName = "";
        try {
            for (int i = 0; i < aliases.length; i++) {
                String alias = aliases[i];
                if (alias.contains(".")) {

                    String[] sp = alias.split("\\.");
                    StringBuilder aliasBuilder = new StringBuilder();
                    for (int j = 0; j < sp.length; j++) {
                        if (j == 0) {
                            fieldName = sp[j];
                        } else {
                            aliasBuilder.append(sp[j]);
                            aliasBuilder.append(".");
                        }
                    }
                    aliasName = aliasBuilder.substring(0,
                            aliasBuilder.length() - 1);

                    nestedAliases.add(alias);
                    manageEntities(fieldName, aliasName, tuple[i]);
                }
            }
        } catch (NoSuchFieldException e) {
            throw new HibernateException("Could not instantiate resultclass: "
                    + resultClass.getName() + " for field name: " + fieldName
                    + " and alias name:" + aliasName);
        }
    }

    private Class findClass(String fieldName) throws NoSuchFieldException,
    SecurityException {
        if (fieldToClass.containsKey(fieldName)) {
            return fieldToClass.get(fieldName);
        } else {
            Class subclass = resultClass.getDeclaredField(fieldName)
                    .getType();

            if (subclass.equals(List.class) || subclass.equals(Set.class)) {
                if (subclass.equals(List.class)) {
                    listFields.put(fieldName, LinkedList.class);
                } else {
                    listFields.put(fieldName, HashSet.class);
                }
                Field field = resultClass.getDeclaredField(fieldName);
                ParameterizedType genericType = (ParameterizedType) field
                        .getGenericType();
                subclass = (Class) genericType.getActualTypeArguments()[0];

            }
            fieldToClass.put(fieldName, subclass);
            return subclass;
        }
    }

    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    private void manageEntities(String fieldName, String aliasName,
            Object tupleValue) throws NoSuchFieldException, SecurityException {
        Class subclass = findClass(fieldName);
        if (!subEntities.containsKey(fieldName)) {
            List