Get record with max id, using Hibernate Criteria

Question

Using Hibernate\'s Criteria API, I want to select the record within a table with the maximum value for a given column.

I tried to use Projections, creating an alias

Answer 1

I found that using addOrder and setMaxResults together worked for me.

Criteria c = session.createCriteria(Thingy.class);
c.addOrder(Order.desc("id"));
c.setMaxResults(1);
return (Thingy)c.uniqueResult();

Using the MySQL dialect, this generates a SQL prepared statement about like this (snipping out some of the fields):

select this_.id ... from Thingy this_ order by this_.id desc limit ?

I am not sure if this solution would be effective for dialects other than MySQL.