Hibernate Annotations with SQL query

Question

I want to create a hibernate SQL query and cast it to an object without creating the table.

for example i have

StringBuilder query = new StringBuilder();
query.append("SELECT groupId, categoryId, name FROM AssetCategory");

SQLQuery sqlQuery = session.createSQLQuery(query.toString());
sqlQuery.addEntity("Categories", Categories.class);

List<Categories> list = sqlQuery.list();

The category object is declared like this :

@Entity
public class Categories implements Serializable {

@Column(name = "name")
String name;

@Column(name = "categoryId")
Long categoryId;

@Column(name = "groupId")
Long groupId;

Of course this cant work because there is no ID. And this table does not need to be created either. So how would i go about declaring this ?

Any hints ?

I just cant find the documentation.

Answer 1

you can use a SQLTransformer to do this.. you wont need the annotations in the pojo even.

read this. it will help you realize what you should be doing.