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How to prevent updates of a SQL column using JPA ?

When working with JPA / Hibernate, you may want to prevent updates of a given column. This is typically the case with your primary key. This is possible using the “updatable” attribute of the @Column annotation. Ex :

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
    @Column(name = "id", updatable = false, nullable = false)
    private Long id;

Named parameter not found in JPA/Hibernate native SQL queries

When using named parameters in native SQL queries with Hibernate implementation of the Java Persistence API (JPA), you may run into the following error
[code lang=java]
org.springframework.dao.InvalidDataAccessApiUsageException: Parameter with that name [orderId] did not exist;
nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Parameter with that name [orderId] did not exist
[/code]

This happens even if the named parameter was properly set, as in the following example :

For example :
[code lang=java]
void update(EntityManager em) {
Query q = em.createNativeQuery(“SELECT * FROM orders where id = :orderId;”);
q.setParameter(“orderId”, “1234”);
q.executeUpdate();
}
[/code]

The issue comes from Continue reading