spring-data subquery within a Specification

Question

Spring-data, Oliver Gierke\'s excellent library, has something called a Specification (org.springframework.data.jpa.domain.Specification). With it you can generate several

Answer 1

String projectName = "project1";
List result = employeeRepository.findAll(
    new Specification() {
        @Override
        public Predicate toPredicate(Root root, CriteriaQuery query, CriteriaBuilder cb) {
            Subquery sq = query.subquery(Employee.class);
            Root project = sq.from(Project.class);
            Join sqEmp = project.join("employees");
            sq.select(sqEmp).where(cb.equal(project.get("name"),
                    cb.parameter(String.class, projectName)));
            return cb.in(root).value(sq);
        }
    }
);

is the equivalent of the following jpql query:

SELECT e FROM Employee e WHERE e IN (
    SELECT emp FROM Project p JOIN p.employees emp WHERE p.name = :projectName
)