selecting the first element value from the list returned by criteria

Question

I have criteria which is finally returing a list as shown below..

ment = (Iils) criteria.uniqueResult();

but please advise how can I do the necessary changes as i want to retrieve the first item from the list and not the unique result please advise what changes i need to do to achieve that

Answer 1

You can use the setFirstResult() and setMaxResults() method in Criteria. Here is an example

criteria.setFirstResult(0);
criteria.setMaxResults(1);