Error in hibernate call using annotations - sql

Question

I am getting this error
menu_categories is not mapped [from menu_categories]
my hibernate call is
public List loadMenuCategories(SessionFactory sessionFactory){
List types = new ArrayList<MenuCategories>();
Session session = sessionFactory.getCurrentSession();
session.beginTransaction();
Query query = session.createQuery("from menu_categories");
List result = query.list();
Iterator it = result.iterator();
while(it.hasNext()){
MenuCategories menuCategories = (MenuCategories)it.next();
types.add(menuCategories);
}
sessionFactory.close();
return types;
}
and my bean is
#Entity
#Table(appliesTo = "menu_categories")
public class MenuCategories extends BaseModel{
/**
*
*/
private static final long serialVersionUID = -4875305890823765933L;
}
package com.rizstien.myhotel.framework.model;
import java.io.Serializable;
import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue;
import javax.persistence.GenerationType;
import javax.persistence.Id;
import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
public class BaseModel implements Serializable {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
#Id
#GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
#Column(name = "id", nullable=false)
private Integer id;
#Column(name = "name")
private String name;
#Column(name = "description")
private String desc;
#Column(name = "is_active")
private boolean active;
#Column(name = "no_of_items")
private Integer noOfItems;
public Integer getId() {
return id;
}
public void setId(Integer id) {
this.id = id;
}
public String getName() {
return name;
}
public void setName(String name) {
if (!StringUtils.isEmpty(name)) {
this.name = name;
}
}
public String getDesc() {
return desc;
}
public void setDesc(String desc) {
if (!StringUtils.isEmpty(desc)) {
this.desc = desc;
}
}
public boolean isActive() {
return active;
}
public void setActive(boolean active) {
this.active = active;
}
public Integer getNoOfItems() {
return noOfItems;
}
public void setNoOfItems(Integer noOfItems) {
this.noOfItems = noOfItems;
}
}
EDIT
this is my hibernate config file
<hibernate-configuration>
<session-factory>
<property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:mysql://localhost:3311/myhotel</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.username">root</property>
<property name="connection.password">root</property>
<property name="connection.pool_size">5</property>
<property name="dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</property>
<property name="current_session_context_class">thread</property>
<property name="cache.provider_class">org.hibernate.cache.NoCacheProvider</property>
<property name="show_sql">true</property>
<property name="hbm2ddl.auto">update</property>
<mapping class="com.rizstien.myhotel.menucategories.model.MenuCategories"/>
</session-factory>

Answer 1

The query you're executing is not SQL. It's HQL. HQL queries entities, not tables. It should thus be from MenuCategories. This entity, BTW, should be named MenuCategory, sicne one instance of it represent one category, and not several categories.
Read the documentation.

Answer 2

I had mentioned db name in annotation and it solved the problem
#Entity
#Table(name = "menu_categories", catalog="db_name")
public class MenuCategories extends BaseModel{
private static final long serialVersionUID = -4875305890823765933L;
}