JPA passing list to IN clause in named native query

I know I can pass a list to named query in JPA, but how about NamedNativeQuery? I have tried many ways but still can't just pass the list to a NamedNativeQuery. Anyone know how to pass a list to the in clause in NamedNativeQuery? Thank you very much!

The NamedNativeQuery is as below:

@NamedNativeQuery(
   name="User.findByUserIdList", 
   query="select u.user_id, u.dob, u.name, u.sex, u.address from user u "+
         "where u.user_id in (?userIdList)"
)

and it is called like this:

List<Object[]> userList = em.createNamedQuery("User.findByUserIdList").setParameter("userIdList", list).getResultList();

However the result is not as I expected.

System.out.println(userList.size());  //output 1

Object[] user = userList.get(0);
System.out.println(user.length);   //expected 5 but result is 3
System.out.println(user[0]);       //output MDAVERSION which is not a user_id
System.out.println(user[1]);       //output 5
System.out.println(user[2]);       //output 7

The above accepted answer is not correct and led me off track for many days !!

> JPA and Hibernate both accept collections in native query using Query.

You just need to do

String nativeQuery = "Select * from A where name in :names"; //use (:names) for older versions of hibernate
Query q = em.createNativeQuery(nativeQuery);
q.setParameter("names", l);

Also refer the answers here which suggest the same (I picked the above example from one of them)

1. Reference 1
2. Reference 2 which mentioned which cases paranthesis works which giving the list as a parameter

*note that these references are about jpql queries, nevertheless the usage of collections is working with native queries too.

A list is not a valid parameter for a native SQL query, as it cannot be bound in JDBC. You need to have a parameter for each argument in the list.

where u.user_id in (?id1, ?id2)

This is supported through JPQL, but not SQL, so you could use JPQL instead of a native query.

Some JPA providers may support this, so you may want to log a bug with your provider.

Depending on your database/provider/driver/etc., you can, in fact, pass a list in as a bound parameter to a JPA native query.

For example, with Postgres and EclipseLink, the following works (returning true), demonstrating multidimensional arrays and how to get an array of double precision. (Do SELECT pg_type.* FROM pg_catalog.pg_type for other types; probably the ones with _, but strip it off before using it.)

Array test = entityManager.unwrap(Connection.class).createArrayOf("float8", new Double[][] { { 1.0, 2.5 }, { 4.1, 5.0 } });
Object result = entityManager.createNativeQuery("SELECT ARRAY[[CAST(1.0 as double precision), 2.5],[4.1, 5.0]] = ?").setParameter(1, test).getSingleResult();

The cast is there so the literal array is of doubles rather than numeric.

More to the point of the question - I don't know how or if you can do named queries; I think it depends, maybe. But I think following would work for the Array stuff.

Array list = entityManager.unwrap(Connection.class).createArrayOf("int8", arrayOfUserIds);
List<Object[]> userList = entityManager.createNativeQuery("select u.* from user u "+
     "where u.user_id = ANY(?)")
     .setParameter(1, list)
     .getResultList();

I don't have the same schema as OP, so I haven't checked this exactly, but I think it should work - again, at least on Postgres & EclipseLink.

Also, the key was found in: http://tonaconsulting.com/postgres-and-multi-dimensions-arrays-in-jdbc/

Using hibernate, JPA 2.1 and deltaspike data I could pass a list as parameter in query that contains IN clause. my query is below.

@Query(value = "SELECT DISTINCT r.* FROM EVENT AS r JOIN EVENT AS t on r.COR_UUID = t.COR_UUID where " +
		"r.eventType='Creation' and t.eventType = 'Reception' and r.EVENT_UUID in ?1", isNative = true)
public List<EventT> findDeliveredCreatedEvents(List<String> eventIds);

currently I use JPA 2.1 with Hibernate

I also use IN condition with native query. Example of my query

SELECT ... WHERE table_name.id IN (?1)

I noticed that it's impossible to pass String like "id_1, id_2, id_3" because of limitations described by James

But when you use jpa 2.1 + hibernate it's possible to pass List of string values. For my case next code is valid:

    List<String> idList = new ArrayList<>();
    idList.add("344710");
    idList.add("574477");
    idList.add("508290");

    query.setParameter(1, idList);

In my case ( EclipseLink , PostGreSQL ) this works :

    ServerSession serverSession = this.entityManager.unwrap(ServerSession.class);
    Accessor accessor = serverSession.getAccessor();
    accessor.reestablishConnection(serverSession);
    BigDecimal result;
	try {
        Array jiraIssues = accessor.getConnection().createArrayOf("numeric", mandayWorkLogQueryModel.getJiraIssues().toArray());
        Query nativeQuery = this.entityManager.createNativeQuery(projectMandayWorkLogQueryProvider.provide(mandayWorkLogQueryModel));
		nativeQuery.setParameter(1,mandayWorkLogQueryModel.getPsymbol());
		nativeQuery.setParameter(2,jiraIssues);
		nativeQuery.setParameter(3,mandayWorkLogQueryModel.getFrom());
		nativeQuery.setParameter(4,mandayWorkLogQueryModel.getTo());
		result = (BigDecimal) nativeQuery.getSingleResult();
    } catch (Exception e) {
		throw new DataAccessException(e);
	}

    return result;

Also in query cannot use IN(?) because you will get error like :

> Caused by: org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: operator does not exist: numeric = numeric[]

'IN(?)' must be swapped to '= ANY(?)'

My solution was based on Erhannis concept.

Tried in JPA2 with Hibernate as provider and it seems hibernate does support taking in a list for "IN" and it works. (At least for named queries and I believe it will be similar with named NATIVE queries) What hibernate does internally is generate dynamic parameters, inside the IN same as the number of elements in the passed in list.

So in you example above

List<Object[]> userList = em.createNamedQuery("User.findByUserIdList").setParameter("userIdList", list).getResultList();

If list has 2 elements the query will look like

select u.user_id, u.dob, u.name, u.sex, u.address from user u "+
         "where u.user_id in (?, ?)

and if it has 3 elements it looks like

select u.user_id, u.dob, u.name, u.sex, u.address from user u "+
         "where u.user_id in (?, ?, ?)

can be as simple as:

@Query(nativeQuery =true,value = "SELECT * FROM Employee as e WHERE e.employeeName IN (:names)")  
 List<Employee> findByEmployeeName(@Param("names") List<String> names);

In jpa, it worked for me

@Query(nativeQuery =true,value = "SELECT * FROM Employee as e WHERE e.employeeName IN (:names)")  
List<Employee> findByEmployeeName(@Param("names") List<String> names);

you should do this:

String userIds ="1,2,3,4,5"; List<String> userIdList= Stream.of(userIds.split(",")).collect(Collectors.toList());

Then, passes like parameter inside your query, like this:

@NamedNativeQuery(name="User.findByUserIdList", query="select u.user_id, u.dob, u.name, u.sex, u.address from user u where u.user_id in (?userIdList)")

It's not possible with standard JPA. Hibernate offers the proprietary method setParameterList(), but it only works with Hibernate sessions and is not available in JPA's EntityManager.

I came up with the following workaround for Hibernate, which is not ideal but almost standard JPA code and has some nice properties to it.

For starters you can keep the named native query nicely separated in a orm.xml file:

<named-native-query name="Item.FIND_BY_COLORS" result-class="com.example.Item">
    <query>
        SELECT i.*
        FROM item i
        WHERE i.color IN ('blue',':colors')
        AND i.shape = :shape
    </query>
</named-native-query>

The placeholder is wrapped in single quotes, so it's a valid native JPA query. It runs without setting a parameter list and would still return correct results when other matching color parameters are set around it.

Set the parameter list in your DAO or repository class:

@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
public List<Item> findByColors(List<String> colors) {
    String sql = getQueryString(Item.FIND_BY_COLORS, Item.class);
    sql = setParameterList(sql, "colors", colors);

    return entityManager
            .createNativeQuery(sql, Item.class)
            .setParameter("shape", 'BOX')
            .getResultList();
}

No manual construction of query strings. You can set any other parameter as you normally would.

Helper methods:

String setParameterList(String sql, String name, Collection<String> values) {
    return sql.replaceFirst(":" + name, String.join("','", values));
}

String getQueryString(String queryName, Class<?> resultClass) {
    return entityManager
            .createNamedQuery(queryName, resultClass)
            .unwrap(org.hibernate.query.Query.class) // Provider specific
            .getQueryString();
}

So basically we're reading a query string from orm.xml, manually set a parameter list and then create the native JPA query. Unfortunately, createNativeQuery().getResultList() returns an untyped query and untyped list even though we passed a result class to it. Hence the @SuppressWarnings("unchecked").

Downside: Unwrapping a query without executing it may be more complicated or impossible for JPA providers other than Hibernate. For example, the following might work for EclipseLink (untested, taken from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6276122/can-i-get-the-sql-string-from-a-jpa-query-object/):

Session session = em.unwrap(JpaEntityManager.class).getActiveSession();
DatabaseQuery databaseQuery =     query.unwrap(EJBQueryImpl.class).getDatabaseQuery();
databaseQuery.prepareCall(session, new DatabaseRecord());
Record r = databaseQuery.getTranslationRow();
String bound = databaseQuery.getTranslatedSQLString(session, r);
String sqlString = databaseQuery.getSQLString();

An alternative might be to store the query in a text file and add code to read it from there.

You can pass in a list as a parameter, but:

• if you create a @NamedNativeQuery and use .createNamedQuery(), you don't use named param, you used ?1(positional parameter). It starts with 1, not 0.

• if you use .createNativeQuery(String), you can use named param.

You can try this :userIdList instead of (?userIdList)

@NamedNativeQuery(
       name="User.findByUserIdList", 
       query="select u.user_id, u.dob, u.name, u.sex, u.address from user u "+
             "where u.user_id in :userIdList"
)