Question

I am implementing “Advanced Search” kind of functionality for an Entity in my system such that user can search that entity using multiple conditions(eq,ne,gt,lt,like etc) on attributes of this entity. I am using JPA’s Criteria API to dynamically generate the Criteria query and then using setFirstResult() & setMaxResults() to support pagination. All was fine till this point but now I want to show total number of results on results grid but I did not see a straight forward way to get total count of Criteria query.
This is how my code looks like:

CriteriaBuilder builder = em.getCriteriaBuilder();
CriteriaQuery<Brand> cQuery = builder.createQuery(Brand.class);
Root<Brand> from = cQuery.from(Brand.class);
CriteriaQuery<Brand> select = cQuery.select(from);
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//Created many predicates and added to **Predicate[] pArray**
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select.where(pArray);
// Added orderBy clause
TypedQuery typedQuery = em.createQuery(select);
typedQuery.setFirstResult(startIndex);
typedQuery.setMaxResults(pageSize);
List resultList = typedQuery.getResultList();

My result set could be big so I don’t want to load my entities for count query, so tell me efficient way to get total count like rowCount() method on Criteria (I think its there in Hibernate’s Criteria).

Answer 1

Thanks Vladimir!
I took your idea and used separate count query to use my existing array of predicates in it. Final implementation looks like this:

CriteriaBuilder builder = em.getCriteriaBuilder();
CriteriaQuery<Brand> cQuery = builder.createQuery(Brand.class);
Root<Brand> from = cQuery.from(Brand.class);
CriteriaQuery<Brand> select = cQuery.select(from);
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//Created many predicates and added to **Predicate[] pArray**
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CriteriaQuery<Long> cq = builder.createQuery(Long.class);
cq.select(builder.count(cq.from(Brand.class)));
// Following line if commented causes [org.hibernate.hql.ast.QuerySyntaxException: Invalid path: 'generatedAlias1.enabled' [select count(generatedAlias0) from xxx.yyy.zzz.Brand as generatedAlias0 where ( generatedAlias1.enabled=:param0 ) and ( lower(generatedAlias1.description) like :param1 )]]
em.createQuery(cq);
cq.where(pArray);
Long count = em.createQuery(cq).getSingleResult();
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select.where(pArray);
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// Added orderBy clause
TypedQuery typedQuery = em.createQuery(select);
typedQuery.setFirstResult(startIndex);
typedQuery.setMaxResults(pageSize);
List resultList = typedQuery.getResultList()

Though this is working fine but still I am not sure why I have to write

em.createQuery(cq);

to get it working. Any Idea?