Hibernate: Mapping custom column names in stored procedure named query

Question

I currently have the following named query that wraps around a stored procedure:-

<hibernate-mapping>
    <sql-query name="mySp">
        <return-scalar column="name_first" type="string" />
        <return-scalar column="name_last" type="string" />

        { call some_sp :param }
    </sql-query>
</hibernate-mapping>

The columns name_first and name_last are the exact column names returned by the stored procedure. I created a bean that contains the same column names so that I can map the queried result into that bean.

public class MyBean {
    private String  name_first;
    private String  name_last;  

    ...
}

The Hibernate code that calls the named query and map the result into the bean:-

MyBean myBean = (MyBean) sessionFactory.getCurrentSession()
                        .getNamedQuery("mySp")
                        .setParameter("param", param)
                        .setResultTransformer(Transformers.aliasToBean(MyBean.class))
                        .uniqueResult();

All of these work fine, but instead of relying on the column names from the stored procedure, I want to use my own column names in MyBean, for example:-

public class MyBean {
    private String  firstName; // instead of name_first
    private String  lastName;  // instead of name_last  

    ...
}

How do I map my column names against the stored procedure's columns in my named query above?

Thanks.

UPDATE - I added my final solution below.

Answer 1

You'll need to implement your own ResultTransformer. It's really simple, and you can look at the source of the bundled implementations for inspiration.

http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/core/3.6/javadocs/org/hibernate/transform/ResultTransformer.html

https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-core/tree/master/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/transform