Use Of "immutable" Scala Entities With Hibernate

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        Here you can see how to use "immutable" scala objects with Hibernate:

 
    val some = "Alexey"
    val another = "John"
    connect { (manager, tx) =>
        val person = new Person(name=some)

        tx { () => manager.persist(person) }

        var result = manager
          .createQuery("SELECT p FROM Person p WHERE p.name = :name")
          .setParameter("name", some)
          .getSingleResult
          .asInstanceOf[Person]

        tx { () => manager.merge(result.copy(name=another)) }
    }

Entity class can be defined in the following way. Hibernate will use default constructor to create instance of the class and will initialize implicit fields.

import javax.persistence._
import java.io.Serializable

@Entity
class Person (
    @Id @GeneratedValue
    val id: Integer = null,
    val name: String = null
) extends Serializable {
    def this() = this(id = null)    
}

The previous snippet uses the helper function:

  def connect(body: (EntityManager, (() => Unit) => Unit) => Unit) {
    val factory = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("yourunitname")
    val manager = factory.createEntityManager

    body(manager, { txBody =>
        manager.getTransaction.begin()
        txBody()
        manager.getTransaction.commit()
    })
    manager.close()
    factory.close()
  }

Tags:
• copy
• ejb
• hibernate
• immutable
• Scala