Spring Data JPA - How to query table with no entity class? - mysql

Question

I am working on below database tables :
users table - Each row represents a User in the system. It has a foreign key constraint to countries table.
countries table - Each row represents a Country and each country can have a list of dialects stored in table dialects.
I am using Spring data JPA and have created below entity classes
public class User {
#Id
#GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
private Integer id;
#Column(name = "full_name")
private String fullName;
#Column(name = "createdAt")
private Date createdAt;
#Column(name = "country_code")
private Integer countryCode;
#Column(name = "dialect_key")
private String dialectKey;
}
public class Country {
#Id
#GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
private Integer country_code;
#Column(name = "name")
private String name;
#Column(name = "continent_name")
private String continentName;
#ElementCollection
#CollectionTable(name = "Dialect", joinColumns = { #JoinColumn(name = "country_code") })
private List<Dialect> dialectList;
}
#Embeddable
public class Dialect {
private String name;
}
Now I have a use case where I need to fetch the full name and dialect name for a given User.
Select u.full_name, d.name from users u
join countries c on u.country_code = c.country_code
join dialects d on c.country_code = d.country_code
where u.id = :user_id and u.dialect_key = d.dialect_key
Question - The above query works fine when ran as a native query and returns a List of Object. Further I am mapping the Objects List to the List of POJO. Is there a better way to do this to avoid Object -> POJO conversion explicitly ?