Spring JDBC quirks

Spring JDBC's JdbcTemplate provides us with utility methods that return scalar values. For e.g. methods such as queryForObject, queryForInt, queryForLong etc. These methods are useful when we need to obtain a single row or single column from the database.
But there is a caveat here. Each of these 'scalar' methods throw an IncorrectResultSizeDataAccessException if the there are no results or more than one row in the resultset.

For e.g. if there is a valid business condition that no rows may be returned for a particular query, then we need to handle this exception and return null. The other option is to use the generic query methods that return a list. For empty resultsets we can return an empty list.