[ACCEPTED]-Hibernate: how to use CONCAT and GROUP_CONCAT-hql

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Score: 12

About concat: it works exactly the same way as 9 it does in MySQL (it concatenates strings, it 8 is not an aggregate function).

You can add 7 group_concat as an sql function to your configuration. This 6 way you assume that the underlaying DB knows 5 this function, and you tie your program 4 to MySQL.

import org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration; 
import org.hibernate.dialect.function.StandardSQLFunction;
import org.hibernate.type.StringType;

// ...
myConf.addSqlFunction("group_concat", new StandardSQLFunction("group_concat", new StringType()));

You also indicate that the output of 3 the function is a string. Without this when 2 you group_concat numeric fields Hibernate will assume 1 the result also to be numeric and crash.

Score: 1

subclass the dialect

and

registerFunction("group_concat", new StandardSQLFunction("group_concat", Hibernate.STRING));

or use SQLFunctionTemplate

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Score: 1

If you are using createSQLQuery, use addScalar 1 to that column as String.

SQLQuery query = sessionObj.createSQLQuery("select group_concat(column1,column2) as mycolumn from some table group by someThing");
query.addScalar("mycolumn ", Hibernate.STRING);

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