Hibernate Criteria and multiple join

Question

is possible with Hibernate criteria do it?

select A.something, B.something, C.something, D.something
    from  A JOIN B on A.id = B.id_fk
          JOIN C ON B.id = C.id_fk
          JOIN D ON C.id = D.id_fk;

Answer 1

I have got exactly the same problem, and was able to resolve it like this:

return criteria.createCriteria(A.class)
               .createCriteria("b", "join_between_a_b")
               .createCriteria("c", "join_between_b_c")
               .createCriteria("d", "join_between_c_d")
               .add(Restrictions.eq("some_field_of_D", someValue));

Note: "b", "c" and "d" in code above refer to attribute names in A, B and C classes, correspondingly (class A has attribute b and so on).

For this solution you don't even need to have lazy and fetch parameters to be set in your A.hbm.xml.