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Join fetch in Criteria API

This approach is the same as JOIN FETCH in JPQL; however, this time, we are using the Criteria API of Hibernate. The following is an example of how to use JOIN FETCH in the Criteria API:

CriteriaBuilder criteriaBuilder =     getEntityManager().getCriteriaBuilder();    CriteriaQuery<?> query =     criteriaBuilder.createQuery(Account.class);    Root root = query.from(Account.class);    root.fetch("transactions", JoinType.INNER);    query.select(root);    query.where(criteriaBuilder.equal(root.get("accountId"),     accountId));    return (Account)this.getEntityManager().createQuery(query)   .getSingleResult();

This option has the same advantages and disadvantages as JPQL. Most of the time, when we write a query using the Criteria API, it is use ...