How to call Oracle Function or Procedure using Hibernate (EntityManager) or JPA

Oracle function or a stored procedure can be called using EntityManager in the following manner.

For Oracle Function

Create a function with sys_refcursor as return type

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION my_function
(p_val IN varchar2)
    RETURN SYS_REFCURSOR
  AS
    my_cursor SYS_REFCURSOR;
  BEGIN
    OPEN my_cursor FOR SELECT emp_name FROM employees
    WHERE lower(emp_name) like lower(p_val||'%');
    RETURN my_cursor;    
  END;

In Entity class, define function as

@javax.persistence.NamedNativeQuery(name = "getFunc", query = "{? =  call
my_function(:empName) }", resultClass = Employee.class, hints = {
@javax.persistence.QueryHint(name = "org.hibernate.callable", value = "true") })

For Oracle Stored Procedure

Create procedure with sys_refcursor as first OUT parameter

CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE myProcedure(p_cursor out sys_refcursor,
     p_val  in varchar2
)
 AS
BEGIN
     OPEN o_cursor FOR
          SELECT     emp_name 
             FROM     employees 
            WHERE     LOWER (emp_name) LIKE lower(p_val||'%');

In Entity class define procedure as

@javax.persistence.NamedNativeQuery(name = "getProc", query = "{ call
my_procedure(?,:empName) }", resultClass = Employee.class, hints = {
@javax.persistence.QueryHint(name = "org.hibernate.callable", value = "true") })

and finally in DAO class, call function or procedure as

Query query = entityManager.createNamedQuery("getFunc"); // if procedure then getProc 
query.setParameter("empName","smith"); 
query.getResultList(); 

Thanks

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