In JPA 2, using a CriteriaQuery, how to count results

Question

I am rather new to JPA 2 and it\'s CriteriaBuilder / CriteriaQuery API:

CriteriaQuery javadoc

CriteriaQuery in the Java EE 6 tutorial

I would like to

Answer 1

It is a bit tricky, depending on the JPA 2 implementation you use, this one works for EclipseLink 2.4.1, but doesn't for Hibernate, here a generic CriteriaQuery count for EclipseLink:

public static Long count(final EntityManager em, final CriteriaQuery criteria)
  {
    final CriteriaBuilder builder=em.getCriteriaBuilder();
    final CriteriaQuery countCriteria=builder.createQuery(Long.class);
    countCriteria.select(builder.count(criteria.getRoots().iterator().next()));
    final Predicate
            groupRestriction=criteria.getGroupRestriction(),
            fromRestriction=criteria.getRestriction();
    if(groupRestriction != null){
      countCriteria.having(groupRestriction);
    }
    if(fromRestriction != null){
      countCriteria.where(fromRestriction);
    }
    countCriteria.groupBy(criteria.getGroupList());
    countCriteria.distinct(criteria.isDistinct());
    return em.createQuery(countCriteria).getSingleResult();
  }

The other day I migrated from EclipseLink to Hibernate and had to change my count function to the following, so feel free to use either as this is a hard problem to solve, it might not work for your case, it has been in use since Hibernate 4.x, notice that I don't try to guess which is the root, instead I pass it from the query so problem solved, too many ambiguous corner cases to try to guess:

  public static  long count(EntityManager em,Root root,CriteriaQuery criteria)
  {
    final CriteriaBuilder builder=em.getCriteriaBuilder();
    final CriteriaQuery countCriteria=builder.createQuery(Long.class);

    countCriteria.select(builder.count(root));

    for(Root fromRoot : criteria.getRoots()){
      countCriteria.getRoots().add(fromRoot);
    }

    final Predicate whereRestriction=criteria.getRestriction();
    if(whereRestriction!=null){
      countCriteria.where(whereRestriction);
    }

    final Predicate groupRestriction=criteria.getGroupRestriction();
    if(groupRestriction!=null){
      countCriteria.having(groupRestriction);
    }

    countCriteria.groupBy(criteria.getGroupList());
    countCriteria.distinct(criteria.isDistinct());
    return em.createQuery(countCriteria).getSingleResult();
  }