Beginning Hibernate 6: Java Persistence from Beginner to Pro

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J. B. Ottinger et al.Beginning Hibernate 6https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7337-1_10

10. Filtering the Results of Searches

Joseph B. Ottinger¹  , Jeff Linwood² and Dave Minter³

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Youngsville, NC, USA

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Austin, TX, USA

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London, UK

 

Your application will often need to process only a subset of the data in the database tables. In these cases, you can create a Hibernate filter to cause queries to ignore the unwanted data. Filters provide a way for your application to limit the results of a query to data that passes the filter’s criteria. Filters are not a new concept – you can achieve much the same effect using SQL database views or, well, named queries – but ...