Question

I have no idea why any one would do this (include support for Lists in named queries but not native named queries (and believe me when I tell you I am steaming mad about this). How can one get around this flaw? I can’t possibly put all the place values for the array into the native query, It could be up to several hundred units long!!!!! How would you handle this?

Answer 1

Can you pass a List as a parameter to a normal SQL statement? No.

 /**
 * Create an instance of Query for executing a native SQL statement, e.g., for update or delete.
 * @param sqlString a native SQL query string
 * @return the new query instance
 */ 
 public Query createNativeQuery(String sqlString);

When you create a native query, the JPA provider will blindly pass that SQL to the database and it assumes the user has formatted the SQL appropriately.

If you want to pass a List as a query parameter, use JPQL.