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christophmccann
christophmccann

Reputation: 4211

Using JPA/Hibernate Criteria to pull between a date

I am trying to using the following code to pull a list of Experience objects from a MySQL table. Each experience has a from datetime column and a to datetime column and I only want to pull rows where todays date falls in between the from and to.

I am using JPA 2.0 running off of Hibernate.

    Date currentDate = new Date();
    CriteriaBuilder builder = entityManager.getCriteriaBuilder();
    CriteriaQuery<Experience> query = builder.createQuery(Experience.class);
    Root<Experience> root = query.from(Experience.class);
    builder.between(currentDate, root.get("from"), root.get("to"));
    return entityManager.createQuery(query).getResultList();

My issue is that builder.between() obviously wont allow me to pass a Date object.

Is there a better solution to my problem?

Upvotes: 12

Views: 52370

Answers (4)

Bernie
Bernie

Reputation: 2366

You're just missing the call to CriteriaBuilder.literal():

Date currentDate = new Date();
CriteriaBuilder builder = entityManager.getCriteriaBuilder();
CriteriaQuery<Experience> query = builder.createQuery(Experience.class);
Root<Experience> root = query.from(Experience.class);
builder.between(builder.literal(currentDate), root.get("from"), root.get("to"));
return entityManager.createQuery(query).getResultList();

Upvotes: 11

Pedro Robles
Pedro Robles

Reputation: 215

You should switch your arguments: 

builder.between(root.<Date>get("dateColumn"), startDate, endDate);

Upvotes: 7

axtavt
axtavt

Reputation: 242786

You can pass it as a parameter:

ParameterExpression<Date> d = builder.parameter(Date.class);
builder.between(d, root.<Date>get("from"), root.<Date>get("to")); 
return entityManager.createQuery(query)
    .setParameter(d, currentDate, TemporalType.DATE).getResultList();

Note that in this case you need to specify desired temporal type.

Also you can rely on the database's current date: builder.currentDate(), builder.currentTimestamp(), etc

Upvotes: 24

Patrick Farrell
Patrick Farrell

Reputation: 483

This link looks promising: http://www.javalobby.org/articles/hibernatequery102/

You can use the criteria.ge("date", root.get("from")); and criteria.le("date"), root.get("to")); to create the between claus

If those aren't available, then you might need to look into writing HQL.

Upvotes: 3

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