SQL 'LIKE' operator in Hibernate Criteria API

Question

I want to implement some universal filter with Hibernate Criteria. It should work like LIKE operator from SQL:

Answer 1

I recommend using a Query object instead of the Criteria object, in this case.

I can't remember if Criteria passes things it doesn't understand straight through to the database like a Query object will do. Basically what this would mean is that if you used a function that was database specific that the Hibernate parser didn't understand, it would pass it "as is" to the database.

Example:

Query queryObject = session.createQuery("from ClassName where VARIABLENAME like '%'||anyvaluehere||'%' order by VARIABLENAME");
List resultList= queryObject.list();

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