Grails / GORM criteria query with hasmany String

Question

I have a domain object (Cat) like this:

class Cat {
   String name

   static hasMany = [
      nicknames: String
   ]
}

(A cat has a name,

Answer 1

You can also use HQL (tested with Grails 2.5.0):

Cat.findAll("from Cat c inner join c.nicknames as n where upper(n) like '%'||?||'%'", [nickname.toUpperCase()])