Spring Data JPA(Hibernate): How do I retrieve a concrete entity using only a field in its abstract superclass?

Question

Consider the following hierarchy, where entities WidgetA and WidgetB extend an abstract Widget superclass:

@Entity
@In         


        

Answer 1

It seems you didn't specify a discriminator explicitly for your widget hierarchy. I think you can try to define it explicitly because Spring Data will manipulate bytecode to generate the queries, and so I suspect SpringData need to have those values explicitely defined.

Additionally in subclasses you need to indicate the discriminator value for each subclass.

@Entity
@Inheritance(strategy = InheritanceType.JOINED)
@DiscriminatorColumn(name="WIDGET_TYPE")
public abstract class Widget implements Serializable  {

    @Column(name="serialNumber", length=64, nullable=false, unique=true)
    private String serialNumber;
    ...

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@Entity
@DiscriminatorValue("A")
public class WidgetA extends Widget implements Serializable  {
...

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@Entity
@DiscriminatorValue("B")
public class WidgetB extends Widget implements Serializable  {
...