Hello, Query.getReturnAliases() method is deprecated since Hibernate 5.2. According to the documentation an alternative is to make use of javax.persistence.Tuple to retrieve the aliases. But one of the advantages of using getReturnAliases() is that it the underlying query was not executed to retri…

You need to execute the query anyway in order to get the results, so why is there any issue with Tuple? More, you can use explicit aliases in your SQL query so you already know what aliases to expect.

Hello, let me explain the use case: we have a class which receives SQL queries which are defined by users as part of our application metadata, so we do not know which are the aliases defined in the query beforehand. As part of a dynamic processing we are doing in our class, we used the Query.getR…

The internal entity query API is going to change massively in 6.0, so I’m sure there was a good reason for deprecating that method. For the moment, you can simply use it since it’s still available. It might be that even if this method is removed, the underlying mechanism for resolving the aliases m…

Hello, thanks for the suggestion! I’ll give it a try.

Query.getReturnAliases() best alternative

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caristu July 20, 2018, 9:27am 2

Hello,

any suggestion? Thank you in advance!

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Query.getReturnAliases() best alternative

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