JPA Criteria API with multiple parameters

Question

I need to make a search method that uses the JPA Criteria API with multiple parameters. Now the problem is that not every parameter is required. So some could be null, and t

Answer 1

Concept is to construct array of javax.persistence.Predicate which contains only predicates we want to use:

Example entity to be queried:

@Entity
public class A {
    @Id private Long id;    
    String someAttribute;
    String someOtherAttribute;
    ...
}

Query itself:

    //some parameters to your method
    String param1 = "1";
    String paramNull = null;

    CriteriaBuilder qb = em.getCriteriaBuilder();
    CriteriaQuery cq = qb.createQuery();
    Root customer = cq.from(A.class);

    //Constructing list of parameters
    List predicates = new ArrayList();

    //Adding predicates in case of parameter not being null
    if (param1 != null) {
        predicates.add(
                qb.equal(customer.get("someAttribute"), param1));
    }
    if (paramNull != null) {
        predicates.add(
                qb.equal(customer.get("someOtherAttribute"), paramNull));
    }
    //query itself
    cq.select(customer)
            .where(predicates.toArray(new Predicate[]{}));
    //execute query and do something with result
    em.createQuery(cq).getResultList();