Is there any easy way to convert Criteria to HQL?

Question

I have posted a question few days ago about Querying on collections with the Criteria API and after all the answers I see that the thing that I am trying is not possible wit

Answer 1

reposting from the hibernate forums... not sure if it is relevant to nhibernate or up to date

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from: max Hibernate Team

Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 7:12 am

it is a very stubborn folklore that criteria translates to HQL. Criteria goes directly to SQL, but there is no direct public api to get it programmatically.

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translating twice isn't very efficient ;)

http://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.php?t=968990&view=next&sid=50454aa6cec8d482198117fbd398ca70