How do I add Restrictions to the Criteria object?

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In this example you'll learn how to add restrictions to the Criteria object. Using restriction we can narrow the result of our query. In the code below we add some restrictions such as Restrictions.eq(), Restrictions.like() and Restrictions.isNotNull().

In the Hibernate framework you'll find a lot of class the use a method chaining. As in the example below you can see that we actually can add an endless restrictions by calling the add() method.

package org.kodejava.example.hibernate.criteria;

import org.hibernate.SessionFactory;
import org.hibernate.Session;
import org.hibernate.HibernateException;
import org.hibernate.Criteria;
import org.hibernate.criterion.Restrictions;
import org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration;
import org.kodejava.example.hibernate.model.Track;

import java.util.List;

public class RestrictionsDemo {
    private static final SessionFactory sessionFactory;

    static {
        try {
            sessionFactory = new AnnotationConfiguration().
                    configure("hibernate.cfg.xml").
                    buildSessionFactory();
        }
        catch (Throwable ex) {
            throw new ExceptionInInitializerError(ex);
        }
    }

    public static Session getSession() throws HibernateException {
        return sessionFactory.openSession();
    }

    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        final Session session = getSession();
        try {
            Criteria criteria = getSession().createCriteria(Track.class)
                    .createAlias("artist", "artist")
                    .createAlias("genre", "genre")
                    .add(Restrictions.eq("title", "Misery"))
                    .add(Restrictions.like("artist.name", "%beatles%"))
                    .add(Restrictions.isNotNull("genre.name"));

            List<Track> tracks = criteria.list();
            for (Track track : tracks) {
                System.out.println("Track = " + track.getTitle() +
                        "; Artist = " + track.getArtist().getName() +
                        "; Genre = " + track.getGenre().getName());
            }
        } finally {
            session.close();
        }
    }
}

Here are some other restrictions that can also be use to narrow our Criteria query result, for a complete restrictions you can see the Restrictions class documentation.

  • Restrictions.ne("title", "Twist and Shout") - Apply a "not equal" constraint to the named property.
  • Restrictions.ilike("title", "Twist%") - A case-insensitive "like".
  • Restrictions.isNull("title") - Apply an "is null" constraint to the named property.
  • Restrictions.gt("duration", new Integer(200)) - Apply a "greater than" constraint to the named property.
  • Restrictions.between("duration", new Integer(100), new Integer(200)) - Apply a "between" constraint to the named property
  • Restrictions.or(criterionA, criterionB) - Return the disjuction of two expressions.
  • Restrictions.disjuction() - Group expressions together in a single disjunction.
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