Hibernate Criteria API - adding a criterion: string should be in collection

Question

I have to following entity object

@Entity
public class Foobar {
    ...
    private List uuids;
    ...
}

Now I\'d like to

Answer 1

I know this is old question, but I have just encountered this issue and found solution.

If you want to use Hibernate Criteria you can join your uuids collection and use its property elements to match elements. Just like that:

session.createCriteria(Foobar.class)
    .createAlias("uuids", "uuids")
    .add(Restrictions.eq("uuids.elements", "MyUUID"))
    .list()