hibernate order by association

Question

I\'m using Hibernate 3.2, and using criteria to build a query. I\'d like to add and \"order by\" for a many-to-one association, but I don\'t see how that can be done. The Hiber

Answer 1

Ok, found the answer. I tried something that I didn't think would work, but to my surprise did. I was trying this:

Criteria criteria = super.getSession().createCriteria(WipDiscreteJob.class);

criteria.addOrder(Order.asc("assnName.propertyName"))

but what actually worked was:

Criteria criteria = super.getSession().createCriteria(WipDiscreteJob.class);
Criteria assnCrit = criteria.createCriteria("assnName");

assnCrit.addOrder(Order.asc("propertyName"));

I had made the assumption that the addOrder() method was only usable on the main criteria and not on any association criteria.