ElementCollection createAlias in hibernate API

Question

does anyone know if and how the solution for following question (which is written in the JPA API) can be written using the hibernate criteria API?

To be more specific I

Answer 1

Late answer.

The correct propertyName for collection (annotated by @ElementCollection) is "elements" or constant CollectionPropertyNames#COLLECTION_ELEMENTS.

Try with the following answers

Criteria crit = getSession().createCriteria(Discussion.class);
crit.createAlias("participants", "p");

crit.add(Restrictions.eq("p.elements", portalUsername));

or use the constant COLLECTION_ELEMENTS instead

crit.add(Restrictions.eq("p." + CollectionPropertyNames.COLLECTION_ELEMENTS, portalUsername));