Java Hibernate Cookbook

Pagination using a criteria

Now we will look at how to limit the number of rows using hibernate.

How to do it...

Here's a scenario to easily understand what we are about to do.

Let's consider that we have four rows in an employee table, and a SELECT * FROM employee SQL query returns all four records. However, if we want only the second and third records, we can use the SELECT * FROM employee LIMIT 1, 2 SQL statement.

Let's take a look at how to achieve such a condition in hibernate:

Code

Enter the following code to paginate using a criteria:

SessionFactory sessionFactory = HibernateUtil.getSessionFactory(); Session session = sessionFactory.openSession(); Criteria criteria = session.createCriteria(Employee.class); criteria.setFirstResult(1); // represent ...