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

You could use a Query as in the example below or you could convert this to a NamedQuery. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to do this with Criteria.

List result = session
     .createQuery("from Foobar f join f.uuids u where u =: mytest")
     .setString("mytest", "acb123")
     .list();