Spring JPA Returning Empty List On Distinct Query

Question

I've got an odd quirk where when I run a nativeQuery that calls for all distinct values from a single column, I don't get any results. However, when I remove the "distinct" operator from the query, it works perfectly fine, telling me that it's not a database connectivity or content issue.

Controller Method:

    @GetMapping("/getGenres")
    public ResponseEntity<Object> getGenres() {
        return ResponseEntity.ok(genreRepo.findDistinctGenre());
    }

Repository Interface Method

    @Query(value = "SELECT DISTINCT genre FROM genres", nativeQuery = true)
    List<String> findDistinctGenre();

Results with this method

[]

"Working", but not distinct method

    @Query(value = "SELECT genre FROM genres", nativeQuery = true)
    List<String> findDistinctGenre();

Results from this method

["2D","Survival","Battle Royal","Builder","Shooter","RPG"]

I could obviously code a "distinct" method to go through this list, but it seems weird to me that the query is not working

Edit: Adding in the repository and entity classes since those were requested in the comments

Respository Interface:

@Repository
public interface GenreRepository extends CrudRepository<Genre, Integer> {
    @Query(value = "SELECT DISTINCT genre FROM genres", nativeQuery = true)
    List<String> findDistinctGenre();
}

Genre Entity Class:

@Entity
@Table(name = "genres")
@IdClass(GenreId.class)
public class Genre{

    @Id
    @Column(name = "game_id", nullable = false)
    private int gameId;

    @Id
    @Column(name = "genre", nullable = false)
    private String genre;

    public int getGameId() {
        return gameId;
    }

    public void setGameId(int gameId) {
        this.gameId = gameId;
    }

    public String getGenre() {
        return genre;
    }

    public void setGenre(String genre) {
        this.genre = genre;
    }
}

GenreId Class:

public class GenreId implements Serializable {
    /**
     * 
     */
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    private int gameId;

    private int genre;

    public UsersInGroupId() {

    }

    public UsersInGroupId(int gameId, String genre) {
        this.gameId= gameId;
        this.genre= genre;
    }

    public int getGameId() {
        return gameId;
    }

    public void setGameId(int gameId) {
        this.gameId = gameId;
    }

    public String getGenre() {
        return genre;
    }

    public void setGenre(String genre) {
        this.genre = genre;
    }

    public boolean equals(Object o) {
        if (!(o instanceof GenreId)) {
            return false;
        }

        GenreId id = (GenreId) o;

        return id.gameId == this.gameId && id.genre.equals(this.genre);
    }
}

Logs (including the query being shown from spring.jpa.show-sql=true)

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Hibernate: select distinct(c.genre) from genres c

SQL that created and modified the table

CREATE TABLE `genres` (
  `game_id` int(8) NOT NULL,
  `genre` varchar(25) NOT NULL
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4;

INSERT INTO `genres` (`game_id`, `genre`) VALUES
(1, 'Survival'),
(1, '2D'),
(2, 'Shooter'),
(2, 'Battle Royal'),
(2, 'Builder'),
(3, 'RPG');

ALTER TABLE `genres`
  ADD PRIMARY KEY (`game_id`,`genre`),
  ADD KEY `genres_ibfk1` (`game_id`),
  ADD FULLTEXT(`genre`);

ALTER TABLE `genres`
  ADD CONSTRAINT `genres_ibfk_1` FOREIGN KEY (`game_id`) REFERENCES `games` (`game_id`) ON DELETE NO ACTION ON UPDATE NO ACTION;

Answer 1

使用 ADD FULLTEXT( genre ); 更改表格后会发生区别。