Please refer JPA : How to convert a native query result set to POJO class collection
For Postgres 9.4
,
List<String> list = em.createNativeQuery("select cast(row_to_json(u) as text) from myschema.USER_ u WHERE ID = ?")
.setParameter(1, id).getResultList();
User map = new ObjectMapper().readValue(list.get(0), User.class);