Returning a numeric value with hibernate @NamedNativeQuery

Faced "Pure native scalar queries are not yet supported". I need to run count queries having a name of the query as parameter and one of the queries must be native SQL. Was able to overcome by creating fake entity:

import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.Id;

/**
 * Simple wrapper entity work around for the limited hibernate pure native query
 * support. Where an HQL query is not possible
 */
@SuppressWarnings("serial")
@Entity
public class CountDTO  extends Number {

    @Id
    @Column(name = "COUNT")
    private Long count;

    @Override
    public double doubleValue() {
        return count.doubleValue();
    }

    @Override
    public float floatValue() {
        return count.floatValue();
    }

    @Override
    public int intValue() {
        return count.intValue();
    }

    @Override
    public long longValue() {
        return count.longValue();
    }

}

Then I set resultClass = CountDTO.class

@NamedNativeQueries({
    @NamedNativeQuery (name="postIdSecurity",
            query="select count(...) ...", resultClass = CountDTO.class)
})

And get count:

    ((Number) getEntityManager().createNamedQuery(qryName).
setParameter(...).getSingleResult()).longValue()

Credits go to: http://jdevelopment.nl/hibernates-pure-native-scalar-queries-supported/#comment-1533

You can actually do this the following way:

@NamedNativeQueries({
        @NamedNativeQuery(
                name = "countAll",
                query = "select count(*) from MyTable"
        )
})
public class MyTable ...


// execute like this:
((BigInteger) manager.createNamedQuery("countAll").getSingleResult()).intValue();

I did a work around using createQuery() instead: http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/core/3.6/reference/en-US/html/objectstate.html#objectstate-querying