I've been trying to get total rows count and to do so, I've used JPA Criteria API but it throws an error at Long count = em.createQuery(sc).getSingleResult(); line and saying java.lang.IllegalStateException: No criteria query roots were specified . I've done some research but couldn't narrow the problem.

Here's my code snippet;

@PersistenceContext
    public EntityManager em;

......

public Page<UserDTO> findByCriteria(String filters, Pageable pageable) {
        CriteriaBuilder cb = em.getCriteriaBuilder();
        CriteriaQuery<UserDTO> cq = cb.createQuery(UserDTO.class);
        Root<UserDTO> iRoot = cq.from(UserDTO.class);
        List<Predicate> predicates = new ArrayList<Predicate>();

        if (StringUtils.isNotEmpty(filters)) {
            predicates.add(cb.like(cb.lower(iRoot.<String>get("login")), "%" + filters.toLowerCase() + "%"));
        }

        Predicate[] predArray = new Predicate[predicates.size()];
        predicates.toArray(predArray);

        CriteriaQuery<Long> sc = cb.createQuery(Long.class);
        sc.select(cb.count(iRoot));

        sc.where(predArray);
        Long count = em.createQuery(sc).getSingleResult();

        cq.where(predArray);

        List<Order> orders = new ArrayList<Order>(2);
        orders.add(cb.asc(iRoot.get("name")));
        orders.add(cb.asc(iRoot.get("desc")));

        cq.orderBy(orders);
        TypedQuery<UserDTO> query = em.createQuery(cq);

        Page<UserDTO> result = new PageImpl<UserDTO>(query.getResultList(), pageable, count);


        return result;
    }

EDITED AND WORKING CODE;

public Page<UserDTO> findByCriteria(String columnName, String filters, Pageable pageable) {
        CriteriaBuilder cb = em.getCriteriaBuilder();
        CriteriaQuery<UserDTO> cq = cb.createQuery(UserDTO.class);
        Root<UserDTO> iRoot = cq.from(UserDTO.class);
        List<Predicate> predicates = new ArrayList<Predicate>();

        if (StringUtils.isNotEmpty(filters)) {
            predicates.add(cb.like(cb.lower(iRoot.<String>get(columnName)), "%" + filters.toLowerCase() + "%"));
        }

        Predicate[] predArray = new Predicate[predicates.size()];
        predicates.toArray(predArray);

        Long count = calculateCount(filters);

        cq.where(predArray);

        List<Order> orders = new ArrayList<Order>(2);
        orders.add(cb.asc(iRoot.get("firstName")));
        orders.add(cb.asc(iRoot.get("lastName")));

        cq.orderBy(orders);
        TypedQuery<UserDTO> query = em.createQuery(cq);

        Page<UserDTO> result = new PageImpl<UserDTO>(query.getResultList(), pageable, count);


        return result;
    }

    public Long calculateCount(String filters) {
        CriteriaBuilder cb = em.getCriteriaBuilder();
        CriteriaQuery<Long> sc = cb.createQuery(Long.class);
        Root<UserDTO> iRoot = sc.from(UserDTO.class);
        List<Predicate> predicates = new ArrayList<Predicate>();

        if (StringUtils.isNotEmpty(filters)) {
            predicates.add(cb.like(cb.lower(iRoot.<String>get("login")), "%" + filters.toLowerCase() + "%"));
        }

        Predicate[] predArray = new Predicate[predicates.size()];
        predicates.toArray(predArray);

        sc.select(cb.count(iRoot));

        sc.where(predArray);
        Long count = em.createQuery(sc).getSingleResult();

        return count;

    }

As anticipated in the comment, you need to explicitly add CriteriaQuery#from() method:

sc.from(UserDTO.class);

The from method is often not used because the API provider defaults to the entity class specified in the CriteriaQuery constructor. Not in this case however, because the class is a Long and it doesn't correspond to an entity class.

Jpa Criteria API count

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