Hi,
how can i parse a Criteria object which contains some levels of Subcriterias in it?

I can get all the Subcriterias of a Criteria, but how to get all the Subcriterias from a Subcriteria? And eventually hot to get all the restrictions which are applied on a certain Subcriteria?

Please advice.

Ok, i will respond myself to my problem, as usual on this forum:
The implementation of Criteria is a little poor.

There are Top level criterias, known as CriteriaImpl and subcriterias known as CriteriaImpl.Subcriteria....

there should not be any problem with that, but:

ALL the subcriterias you create on that CriteriaImpl, no matter they are Subcriterias of other Subcriterias, they ALL are stored in a list, no matter the adding level - so, you have to itere trought the list until you get tired of it.

Same issue is at the criterions stored...you cannot get the criterions for a subcriteria for example, unless you iterate like a maniac trough them... :(

As like this wasn't enough, there's more:

public Iterator iterateExpressionEntries() { --> Should be called iterateCriterionEntries -> it does a lot of confusion, because it returs
criterionEntries.iterator();

The last, but not the smallest:

you have a private Map fetchModes = new HashMap();...well..there's no accessor method for this...but, there are accessor methods for the elements inside the map :
public FetchMode getFetchMode(String path) {
return (FetchMode) fetchModes.get(path);
}

Maybe some of you will say this is unnecessarely...what if i want to convert my criteria into an xml and then back?