JPA - Setting entity class property from calculated column?

Question

I\'m just getting to grips with JPA in a simple Java web app running on Glassfish 3 (Persistence provider is EclipseLink). So far, I\'m really liking it (bugs in netbeans/gl

Answer 1

There are probably no good ways to do it, only manually:

Object[] r = (Object[]) em.createNativeQuery(
    "select id,title,shorttitle,datestamp,body,true as published, ts_headline(body,q,'ShortWord=0') as headline, type from articles,to_tsquery('english',?) as q where idxfti @@ q order by ts_rank(idxfti,q) desc","ArticleWithHeadline")
    .setParameter(...).getSingleResult();

Article a = (Article) r[0];
a.setHeadline((String) r[1]);

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@Entity
@SqlResultSetMapping(
    name = "ArticleWithHeadline",
    entities = @EntityResult(entityClass = Article.class),
    columns = @ColumnResult(name = "HEADLINE"))
public class Article {
    @Transient
    private String headline;
    ...
}