GetEntity methods

Annotate a DAO method with @GetEntity to convert a core driver data structure into one or more Entities:

@Dao
public interface ProductDao {
  @GetEntity
  Product asProduct(Row row);
}

The generated code will retrieve each entity property from the source, such as:

Product product = new Product();
product.setId(row.get("id", UUID.class));
product.setDescription(row.get("description", String.class));
...

It does not perform a query. Instead, those methods are intended for cases where you already have a query result, and just need the conversion logic.

Parameters

The method must have a single parameter. The following types are allowed:

• GettableByName or one of its subtypes (the most likely candidates are Row and UdtValue).
• ResultSet.
• AsyncResultSet.

The data must match the target entity: the generated code will try to extract every mapped property, and fail if one is missing.

Return type

The method can return:

• a single entity instance. If the argument is a result set type, the generated code will extract the first row and convert it, or return null if the result set is empty.

  @GetEntity
  Product asProduct(Row row);
  
  @GetEntity
  Product firstRowAsProduct(ResultSet resultSet);
  ```
  
  

• a PagingIterable of an entity class. In that case, the type of the parameter must be ResultSet. Each row in the result set will be converted into an entity instance.

  @GetEntity
  PagingIterable<Product> asProducts(ResultSet resultSet);
  

• a MappedAsyncPagingIterable of an entity class. In that case, the type of the parameter must be AsyncResultSet. Each row in the result set will be converted into an entity instance.

  @GetEntity
  MappedAsyncPagingIterable<Product> asProducts(AsyncResultSet resultSet);
  

If the return type doesn't match the parameter type (for example PagingIterable for AsyncResultSet), the mapper processor will issue a compile-time error.