Pet DAO

The PetDAO class is used for various database operations on the Pet entity.

Finish the findNamedPetsBySpecies method so that it returns all pets of the appropriate species. The method should not return any Pets whose name field is null. The method accepts a Hibernate Session object that it should use to make the query.

For example, if the Pets table contains:

id  name   species
--------------------
0   Lady   Dog
1   Max    Cat
2   null   Camel

calling findNamedPetsBySpecies with "Cat" as the species, should return a list that contains a pet named "Max" with the id 1.

Java SE 13, Hibernate 5.4

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import java.util.*;
import java.util.logging.*;
import javax.persistence.*;
import org.hibernate.*;
import org.hibernate.cfg.*;
import org.hibernate.query.Query;

public class PetDAO {
    
    public List<Pet> findNamedPetsBySpecies(Session session, String species) {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Waiting to be implemented.");
    }
    
    @Entity(name = "Pet")
    @Table
    public static class Pet {
        @Id
        public Integer id;
        @Column
        public String name;
        @Column
        public String species;
        
        public Pet() {}
        
        public Pet(Integer id, String name, String species) {
            this.id = id;
            this.name = name;
            this.species = species;
        }
    }
    
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        LogManager logManager = LogManager.getLogManager();
        Logger logger = logManager.getLogger("");
        logger.setLevel(Level.OFF);

        Properties prop = new Properties();
        prop.setProperty("hibernate.connection.url", "jdbc:h2:mem:db1");
        prop.setProperty("dialect", "org.hibernate.dialect.H2Dialect");
        prop.setProperty("hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto", "create");

        SessionFactory sessionFactory = new Configuration().addProperties(prop)
            .addAnnotatedClass(Pet.class).buildSessionFactory();
        
        Session session = sessionFactory.openSession();
        session.beginTransaction();
        
        Pet dog = new Pet(0, "Lady", "Dog");
        Pet cat = new Pet(1, "Max", "Cat");
        Pet camel = new Pet(2, null, "Camel");
        
        session.save(dog);
        session.save(cat);
        session.save(camel);
        session.flush();

        PetDAO petDao = new PetDAO();
        List<Pet> pets = petDao.findNamedPetsBySpecies(session, "Cat");
        for(Pet p : pets) {
            System.out.println(p.id);
            System.out.println(p.name);
            System.out.println(p.species);
        }
    }
}

Example case: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException at PetDAO.findNamedPetsBySpecies(PetDAO.java:11)
All pets have names: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException at PetDAO.findNamedPetsBySpecies(PetDAO.java:11)
Some pets don't have names: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException at PetDAO.findNamedPetsBySpecies(PetDAO.java:11)

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