Spring JPA Two Entities for same DB table - spring-boot

Question

I am writing Spring Boot Data JPA application and I have following situation:
I have 2 database queries fetching from same table but they are fetching different columns and data based on their WHERE clauses. For example:
SELECT CAR_TYPE, CAR_MODEL, CAR_YEAR, ACCIDENT_YEAR, BUY_DAY FROM CAR WHERE ACCIDENT_YEAR IS NULL
, and
SELECT CAR_MODEL, CAR_YEAR FROM CAR WHERE CAR_YEAR >= CURRENT_YEAR
As you can see these 2 queries (whose results will be exposed through 2 different API points) reference the same table CAR, but return different fields and have different WHERE clauses.
I know in JPA, I have to create an entity CarEntity like:
#Entity
#Table(name = "CAR")
public class CarEntity {
// I can only have fields from one or the other query
// here, so I guess I have to have 2 of these
}
, but my problem is that this entity needs to apply for the 2 different queries (with different fields returned, different data, different WHERE clauses).
So, it looks like I have to have actually 2 CarEntity classes. But, I am not sure how to make these 2 CarEntities so they both reference the same table CAR?

Answer 1

You can do by using projection that basically you define an interface with field methods which you want to get them. Projections
#Entity
public class Car implement CarSummary { // if you want you can implement JIC
private UUID id;
private String carType;
private String carModel;
private LocalDateTime carYear;
//getters and setters
}
public interface CarSummary {
String getCardModel();
String getCarYear();
}
Then on your query.
public interface CarRepository extends Repository<Car, UUID> {
Collection<CarSummary> findByCarYearGreaterThan(LocalDateTime now);
Collection<Car> findByAccidentYearIsNull();
}