Case-insensitive equals using Hibernate Criteria

Question

I\'ve seen Restrictions.ilike(\'property\', \'%value%\'), but would like to generate SQL like: lower(property) = \'value\'. Any ideas?

I used:

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Answer 1

As Andy's answer suggests, this for case-insensitive searches but it is also works through to Hibernate version 4.1:

crit(Restrictions.eq("firstName", firstName).ignoreCase());

Versions 4.1.1 and later of Hibernate do not support the ignoreCase() method on Restriction.eq(). For that, we have to use ilike with MatchMode.

Criteria crit = session.createCriteria(ENTITY.class);
crit.add(Restrictions.ilike('PROPERTY NAME', 'VALUE', MatchMode.ANYWHERE));

As an example, for a USER entity with id, name, surname properties, a case-insensitive search based on name will be:

Criteria crit = session.createCriteria(USER.class);
crit.add(Restrictions.ilike('name', 'Satyam', MatchMode.ANYWHERE));

This will return all results, case insensitive.