Join 2 tables using Spring JPA - spring

Question

I have two entities(Invoice and InvoiceItems) without adding any relationship.
Invoice
public class Invoice {
#Id
#GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
private Long invoiceID;
#Column(name="code")
private String code;
//other columns
}
Invoice Items
public class InvoiceItems {
#Id
#GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
private Long invItemID;
#Column(name="invoice_id")
private Integer invoiceId;
//other columns
}
Can I join these entities and get data without adding relationship using JPA?
If it isn't possible how to join 2 entities using JPQL or Native query?

Answer 1

If your data is valid then using native query you can do that
#Query(nativeQuery = true, "select * from Invoice i join InvoiceItems im on i.id = im.invoice_id")
public List<Invoice> findData();
But that is not a good way join without relation using JPA.

Answer 2

Yes, you can join these entities and get data without adding relationship using JPA, but it's a little bit losing the purpose of using JPA.
You need to create a java class first, which will be the returning data object from the DB. After that you can use entityManager's createNamedQuery method to get the result.
createNamedQuery(String sqlString, ResultClass.Class)
sqlString may be something like:
SELECT INV.INVOICE_ID
INV.CODE
INV_ITEMS.INV_ITEM_ID
FROM INVOICE INV
JOIN INVOICE_ITEMS INV_ITEMS
ON INV.INVOICE_ID = INV_ITEMS.INVOICE_ID;
And the corresponding ResultClass:
public class ResultClass {
private Long invoiceID;
private String code;
private Long invItemID;
// other columns
}
Or you can even use RowMapper to map the object all by yourself for more flexibility by using JdbcTemplate with query() method.