Hibernate criteria: why no Subqueries.isNull(DetachedCriteria)?

Question

I want to translate a script like this into criteria:

SELECT ...
FROM A
WHERE 
  A.some_date > (select bdate from B where ...)
  OR (select bdate from B where ...) IS NULL

So, an A should be returned if either A.Some_date > B.bdate or if B.bdate is NULL.

I was expecting there to be a Subqueries.notNull(DetachedCriteria) (like there is a SubQueries.notExists(DetachedCriteria) ) but this method does not exist nor did I find something else to pull this off.

I could of course work around this by returning a count and check if this is > 0 or such but then I need to write 2 identical (except for the Projection) DetachedCriteria's.

Does anyone know if/how to have the is NULL check for the above case or why this isn't provided in the Hibernate criteria API? Perhaps there's a good reason...

Answer 1

I think

Subqueries.eq(null, yourDetachedCriteria)

should work.

Answer 2

class MySubqueries:

public class MySubqueries {
    public static Criterion isNull(DetachedCriteria dc) {
        return new IsNullSubqueryExpression(null, null, dc);
    }
}

class IsNullSubqueryExpression:

public class IsNullSubqueryExpression extends SubqueryExpression {

    protected IsNullSubqueryExpression(String op, String quantifier, DetachedCriteria dc) {
        super(op, quantifier, dc);
    }

    @Override
    protected String toLeftSqlString(Criteria criteria, CriteriaQuery criteriaQuery) {
        return "";
    }

    @Override
    public String toSqlString(Criteria criteria, CriteriaQuery criteriaQuery) throws HibernateException {
        return super.toSqlString(criteria, criteriaQuery) + " IS NULL";
    }
}

use:

detachedCriteria.add(MySubqueries.isNull(subDetachedCriteria))