Tag - Criteria API

Brief summary

You often need to create queries with changeable conditions, for example, a query for a list with filtering by the columns on the side of the database. In this case, a good solution will be to use Criteria API – the API of JPA 2.0 specification. You can use JPQL queries, but this will lead to rather complicated code and the impossibility of checking the queries during the time of compilation. Criteria API also allows writing queries with validation while compiling and IDE tips.
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