Using JPA/Hibernate Criteria to pull between a date

Question

I am trying to using the following code to pull a list of Experience objects from a MySQL table. Each experience has a from datetime column and a t

Answer 1

This link looks promising: http://www.javalobby.org/articles/hibernatequery102/

You can use the criteria.ge("date", root.get("from")); and criteria.le("date"), root.get("to")); to create the between claus

If those aren't available, then you might need to look into writing HQL.

Answer 2

You should switch your arguments:

builder.between(root.<Date>get("dateColumn"), startDate, endDate);

Answer 3

You can pass it as a parameter:

ParameterExpression<Date> d = builder.parameter(Date.class);
builder.between(d, root.<Date>get("from"), root.<Date>get("to")); 
return entityManager.createQuery(query)
    .setParameter(d, currentDate, TemporalType.DATE).getResultList(); 

Note that in this case you need to specify desired temporal type.

Also you can rely on the database's current date: builder.currentDate(), builder.currentTimestamp(), etc

Answer 4

You're just missing the call to CriteriaBuilder.literal():

Date currentDate = new Date();
CriteriaBuilder builder = entityManager.getCriteriaBuilder();
CriteriaQuery<Experience> query = builder.createQuery(Experience.class);
Root<Experience> root = query.from(Experience.class);
builder.between(builder.literal(currentDate), root.get("from"), root.get("to"));
return entityManager.createQuery(query).getResultList();