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akhi
akhi

Reputation: 692

How to create hibernate criteria with DISTINCT in this case

I am using hibernate criteria to create postgres query:

criteria.addOrder(Order.asc(property).ignoreCase()).setProjection(
                            Projections.distinct(Projections.property("name")));

which generates sql similar to below:

select DISTINCT name from table1 order by lower( name) asc;

and when this sql gets executed gives below error:

ERROR:  for SELECT DISTINCT, ORDER BY expressions must appear in select list

I know this is something against the postgres rule, but when i looked into the error, i found that we should not use any function at order by clause. If its used then we need to have two work arounds:

  1. use nested select as below:

    select name from (select distinct name from table1) as aliasname order by lower(name) asc;

  2. use lower function in both select and order by clause.

    select DISTINCT lower(name) from table1 order by lower(name) asc;

So for the fix, I will prefer a solution into hibernate side. how to create a criteria such that i can get any of the above two sqls.

thanks for your suggetions in advance.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1879

Answers (1)

Joshua C.
Joshua C.

Reputation: 921

I recently ran into the same problem and ended up using SQLProjection. I realize that this post is a couple of years old, but I haven't found any other posts with solutions that either work or don't require rewriting the entire query with hardcoded sql, so hopefully this will help someone else who runs into this issue. This solution still requires some hardcoded sql, but it is minimal.

String[] columnAlias = {"name"};
criteria.addOrder(Order.asc("name").ignoreCase()).setProjection(Projections.distinct(
Projections.sqlProjection("lower(" + criteria.alias + "_.name) as name", columnAlias,
Hibernate.STRING as Type[])));

This should produce the following sql:

select distinct lower(this_.name) as name from table1 this_ order by lower(this_.name) asc;

Note: unless otherwise specified, criteria.alias is set to 'this' by default.

Upvotes: 1

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