Is there a way to have placeholders, like ? for column names? For example SELECT ? FROM TABLEA GROUP BY ?
Use dynamic query as below:
String queryString = "SELECT "+ colName+ " FROM TABLEA GROUP BY "+ colName;
If I want to simply run the above query and get a List what is the best way?
List<String> data = getJdbcTemplate().query(query, new RowMapper<String>(){
public String mapRow(ResultSet rs, int rowNum)
throws SQLException {
return rs.getString(1);
}
});
EDIT: To Stop SQL Injection, check for non word characters in the colName as :
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("\\W");
if(pattern.matcher(str).find()){
//throw exception as invalid column name
}