select - JPQL statement returning boolean value

Question

Is it possible to write JPQL query like following:

select count(*) > 0 from Scenario scen where scen.name = :name

that would return true/false boolean values depending of whether entity filling criteria exists or not?

I would like to use the query this way:

boolean exists = entityManager.createQuery(query,Boolean.class).setParameter("name",name).getSingleResult();

The query from my example just isn't syntactically correct (parse error), but is there any correct way of doing checks like that in JPQL, that would return boolean value, or is it only possible in Java code?

Answer 1

Yes, it is possible with following:

select case when (count(scen) > 0)  then true else false end  
from Scenario scen where scen.name = :name