I am using Hibernate Template to store and get data from my database. I am trying to check if the user already exists in database or not. What I have tried is
public class UserDaoImpl implements UserDao {
    private HibernateTemplate hibernateTemplate;
    @Autowired
    public void setSessionFactory(SessionFactory sessionFactory) {
        hibernateTemplate = new HibernateTemplate(sessionFactory);
    }
    @Override
    public List<User> findUser(Integer socialId) {
        String queryString = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE users.validatedId = ?";
        return hibernateTemplate.find(queryString, socialId);
    }
}
but it says Type mismatch: cannot convert from List < capture#2-of ? > to List< User >
Thanks