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

What you are asking is not supported out of the box by hibernate. See http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-869

Here is a workaround available in the jira ticket :

entityCriteria.add(Restrictions.sqlRestriction(
  "fooAlias.id in (select e.id from foobar_table e, values_table v" + 
  " where e.id = v.entity_id and v.field = ?)", "abc123"), Hibernate.String)) ;