Case-insensitive search using Hibernate

Question

I\'m using Hibernate for ORM of my Java app to an Oracle database (not that the database vendor matters, we may switch to another database one day), and I want to retrieve objec

Answer 1

This can also be done using the criterion Example, in the org.hibernate.criterion package.

public List findLike(Object entity, MatchMode matchMode) {
    Example example = Example.create(entity);
    example.enableLike(matchMode);
    example.ignoreCase();
    return getSession().createCriteria(entity.getClass()).add(
            example).list();
}

Just another way that I find useful to accomplish the above.