Negating a Criteria Class

elexx · **Joined:** Tue Sep 21, 2010 12:43 pm **Posts:** 6

Hi!

I have the following question:

Is there a way, to negate a Criteria object?
I mean: Get all results, except the ones returned by the given Criteria object?

Thx!

kostaky · **Joined:** Fri Mar 11, 2005 7:46 am **Posts:** 29

Have a look here:

http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/stable/ ... ssion.html

elexx · **Joined:** Tue Sep 21, 2010 12:43 pm **Posts:** 6

Thanx, but I would like to negate a whole "Criteria", and not only a single "Criterion"

otinanism · **Joined:** Tue Dec 21, 2010 9:43 am **Posts:** 8

Did you find a workaround for that? Thanks.

mmerder · **Posted:** Wed Mar 23, 2011 8:49 am

I guess the theoretical correct inversion would be something like createCriteria(Object.class) and use a "not in" subcriteria, but I do not see a good reason why you should ever do that. You would fetch the whole database but the objects matching your subcriteria.