Hibernate query with an alias

Question

What's wrong with

session.createCriteria(Composed.class, "main")
.createAlias("main.id.branch", "b1")
.add(Restrictions.eq("b1.owner", user))
.list();

? The corresponding HQL works fine

String hql = "select main from Composed as main"
        + "left join main.id.branch as b1 where b1.owner = ?";
session.createQuery(hql)
.setInteger(0, user.id().intValue())
.list();

From the Criteria, Hibernate creates no join and uses where b1x1_.owner_id=?, but there's no b1x1_ anywhere, so it fails with "could not prepare statement".

The classes are rather trivial

@Entity class Composed {
    @Id ComposedId id; // also tried @EmbeddedId
    ... irrelevant stuff
}

@Embeddable class ComposedId {
    @ManyToOne(optional=false) Branch branch;
    ... irrelevant stuff
}

@Entity class Branch {
    @Id Integer id;
    @ManyToOne(optional=false) User owner;
    ... irrelevant stuff
}

@Entity class User {
    @Id Integer id;
    ... irrelevant stuff
}

Update

I've finally created an SSCCE and filed an issue. Sorry for the confusing question, without the SSCCE, it's rather hard to reproduce.

Answer 1

I didn't try but maybe creating two aliases with left join helps you. I mean this:

session.createCriteria(Composed.class, "main")
   .createAlias("main.id", "id1", JoinType.LEFT_OUTER_JOIN)
   .createAlias("id1.branch", "b1", JoinType.LEFT_OUTER_JOIN)
   .add(Restrictions.eq("b1.owner", user))

Hope it helps!