hibernate/hibernate-orm · error · IllegalArgumentException

Not an embedded attribute: {}

Error message

Not an embedded attribute: {}

What it means

Error "Not an embedded attribute: {}" thrown in hibernate/hibernate-orm.

Source

Thrown at hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/query/results/internal/jpa/EntityBuilder.java:107

					);
				}
			}
			else if ( memberMapping instanceof EmbeddedMapping<?,?> embeddedMapping ) {
				final var attributeMapping =
								entityDescriptor.findSubPart( embeddedMapping.name() );
				if ( !identifierFetchHandler.handleMember( embeddedMapping ) ) {
					if ( attributeMapping instanceof EmbeddableValuedModelPart modelPart ) {
						attributeFetchBuilders.put(
								embeddedMapping.name(),
								new CompleteFetchBuilderEmbeddableValuedModelPart(
										rootPath.append( attributeMapping.getPartName() ),
										modelPart,
										extractColumnNames( embeddedMapping, modelPart )
								)
						);
					}
					else {
						throw new IllegalArgumentException( "Not an embedded attribute: "
								+ attributeMapping.getNavigableRole().getFullPath() );
					}
				}
			}
			else {
				throw new IllegalArgumentException( "Unrecognized member mapping type: "
							+ memberMapping.getClass().getName() );
			}
		}

		this.identifierFetchBuilder = identifierFetchHandler.buildFetchBuilder();
	}

	private static List<String> extractColumnNames(
			EmbeddedMapping<?, ?> embeddedMapping,
			EmbeddableValuedModelPart modelPart) {
		final var columnNames = new String[modelPart.getJdbcTypeCount()];
		collectColumnNames( embeddedMapping, modelPart.getEmbeddableTypeDescriptor(), 0, columnNames );

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Solutions

1. The attribute is not an embedded attribute. Use embedded result mappings only for @Embedded attributes.

When it happens

Trigger: A JPA result mapping for an embedded/identifier attribute is invalid: Not an embedded attribute: <value>

Common situations: @SqlResultSetMapping/@MappingElement definitions referencing non-embedded attributes, missing column names, or duplicate member mappings.

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