Hibernate: A Developer's Notebook

B.1. The Expression Factory

Hibernate provides the class net.sf.hibernate.expression.Expression as a factory for creating the Criterion instances you use to set up criteria queries. Expression defines a bunch of static methods you can invoke to conveniently create each of the standard Criterion implementations available in Hibernate, using parameters you supply. These criteria are used to determine which persistent objects from the database are included in the results of your query. Here is a summary of the available options.

Method	Parameters	Purpose
allEq	Map properties	A shortcut for requiring several properties to have particular values. The keys of the supplied map are the names of the properties you want to constrain, while the values in the map are the target values each property must equal if an entity is to be included in the query results. The returned Criterion ensures that each named property has the corresponding value.
and	Criterion lhs, Criterion rhs	Builds a compound Criterion that requires both halves to be met in order for the whole to succeed.
between	String property, Object low, Object high	Requires the value of the named property to fall between the values of low and high.
conjunction	None	Creates a Conjunction object which can be used to build an "and" criterion with as many pieces as you need. Simply call its add() method with each of the Criterion instances you want to check. The conjunction will be true if and only all its component criteria are true. This is more convenient ...