Hibernate Criteria API orderBy and Embedded element

Question

Lets say I have a Report entity. Inside it there is @Embeddable ReportPeriod which has Integer month and Integer year fields. When i try to sort my Report report by its ReportPeriod reportPeriod it sorts report by month and year . How to change the order of sort ( year and then month ). Can this be solved by any of the annotations?

Answer 1

I guess you want to load several reports by hibernate criteria and sort them by its embebedded month and year?

Criteria crit = session.createCriteria(Report.class);
crit.addOrder(Order.asc("reportPeriod.year"));
crit.addOrder(Order.asc("reportPeriod.month"));
...=crit.list();

But I am not 100% sure if Order can be applied to an @Embeddable, but is expect it.