HQL Equivalent of SQL Contains

Question

I'm trying to write an HQL query to select objects which contain an object in a child collection.

Example:

Contest Object

ContestID  
ContestName  
RequiredCountries -> one to many collection of Country objects  

Country Object

CountryCode  
CountryName  

The sql equivalent of what i want:

SELECT * FROM CONTEST C  
WHERE C.CONTESTID IN(SELECT CONTESTID FROM CONTEST_COUNTRY CC INNER JOIN COUNTRY CTRY ON   
CC.COUNTRYCODE = CTRY.COUNTRYCODE WHERE COUNTRYCODE='USA')

OR

SELECT * FROM CONTEST C  
WHERE EXISTS(SELECT CONTESTID FROM CONTEST_COUNTRY CC INNER JOIN COUNTRY CTRY ON 
CC.COUNTRYCODE = CTRY.COUNTRYCODE WHERE COUNTRYCODE='USA' AND CC.CONTESTID=C.CONTESTID)  

I have this hql, which works, but seems like not a good solution-

from Contest C  
where (from Country where CountryCode = :CountryCode) =  some elements(C.RequiredCountries) 

I also consider joining with Country, but since I don't have an object class to represent the relationship, I wasn't sure how to join in HQL.

Anyone have any ideas or suggestions? This should be easy.

Answer 1

try this:

from Contest Ct, Country Cr
where Cr.CountryCode = :CountryCode 
    and Cr.Country in elements(Ct.RequiredCountries) 

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