Consider a simple table User;

@entity
Public class User {
integer user_id;
String user_name;
String email;
}

Using ebean today I can write the following code

List l=Ebean.find(User.class).fetch("email").where(...).orderBy(...).findList();

This code will only populate the email member ititially.

What I really would like to do is

List l2=Ebean.find(User.class).fetch("email").where(...).orderBy(...).findSingleAttributeList();

In which the type of the list will be the class of the attribute designeted in the fetch(...) parameter.