Wraps the Hibernate Criteria API in a builder. The builder can be retrieved through the "createCriteria()" dynamic static method of Grails domain classes (Example in Groovy):
         def c = Account.createCriteria()
         def results = c {
             projections {
                 groupProperty("branch")
             }
             like("holderFirstName", "Fred%")
             and {
                 between("balance", 500, 1000)
                 eq("branch", "London")
             }
             maxResults(10)
             order("holderLastName", "desc")
         }
 
 The builder can also be instantiated standalone with a SessionFactory and persistent Class instance:
      new HibernateCriteriaBuilder(clazz, sessionFactory).list {
         eq("firstName", "Fred")
      }
 
 | Modifiers | Name | Description | 
|---|---|---|
| static org.hibernate.type.Type | BIG_DECIMAL | |
| static org.hibernate.type.Type | BIG_INTEGER | |
| static org.hibernate.type.Type | BINARY | |
| static org.hibernate.type.Type | BLOB | |
| static org.hibernate.type.Type | BOOLEAN | |
| static org.hibernate.type.Type | BYTE | |
| static org.hibernate.type.Type | CALENDAR | |
| static org.hibernate.type.Type | CALENDAR_DATE | |
| static org.hibernate.type.Type | CHARACTER | |
| static org.hibernate.type.Type | CHARACTER_ARRAY | |
| static org.hibernate.type.Type | CHAR_ARRAY | |
| static org.hibernate.type.Type | CLASS | |
| static org.hibernate.type.Type | CLOB | |
| static org.hibernate.type.Type | CURRENCY | |
| static org.hibernate.type.Type | DATE | |
| static org.hibernate.type.Type | DOUBLE | |
| static org.hibernate.type.Type | FLOAT | |
| static org.hibernate.type.Type | IMAGE | |
| static org.hibernate.type.Type | INTEGER | |
| static org.hibernate.type.Type | LOCALE | |
| static org.hibernate.type.Type | LONG | |
| static org.hibernate.type.Type | MATERIALIZED_BLOB | |
| static org.hibernate.type.Type | MATERIALIZED_CLOB | |
| static org.hibernate.type.Type | NUMERIC_BOOLEAN | |
| static org.hibernate.type.Type | SERIALIZABLE | |
| static org.hibernate.type.Type | SHORT | |
| static org.hibernate.type.Type | STRING | |
| static org.hibernate.type.Type | TEXT | |
| static org.hibernate.type.Type | TIME | |
| static org.hibernate.type.Type | TIMESTAMP | |
| static org.hibernate.type.Type | TIMEZONE | |
| static org.hibernate.type.Type | TRUE_FALSE | |
| static org.hibernate.type.Type | URL | |
| static org.hibernate.type.Type | UUID_BINARY | |
| static org.hibernate.type.Type | UUID_CHAR | |
| static org.hibernate.type.Type | WRAPPER_BINARY | |
| static org.hibernate.type.Type | YES_NO | 
| Fields inherited from class | Fields | 
|---|---|
| class AbstractHibernateCriteriaBuilder | AND, IS_NULL, IS_NOT_NULL, NOT, OR, ID_EQUALS, IS_EMPTY, IS_NOT_EMPTY, RLIKE, BETWEEN, EQUALS, EQUALS_PROPERTY, GREATER_THAN, GREATER_THAN_PROPERTY, GREATER_THAN_OR_EQUAL, GREATER_THAN_OR_EQUAL_PROPERTY, ILIKE, IN, LESS_THAN, LESS_THAN_PROPERTY, LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL, LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL_PROPERTY, LIKE, NOT_EQUAL, NOT_EQUAL_PROPERTY, SIZE_EQUALS, ORDER_DESCENDING, ORDER_ASCENDING | 
| Constructor and description | 
|---|
| HibernateCriteriaBuilder
                                (java.lang.Class targetClass, org.hibernate.SessionFactory sessionFactory) | 
| HibernateCriteriaBuilder
                                (java.lang.Class targetClass, org.hibernate.SessionFactory sessionFactory, boolean uniqueResult) | 
| Type | Name and description | 
|---|---|
| protected void | cacheCriteriaMapping() | 
| protected org.hibernate.criterion.DetachedCriteria | convertToHibernateCriteria(QueryableCriteria<?> queryableCriteria) | 
| org.hibernate.Criteria | createAlias(java.lang.String associationPath, java.lang.String alias, int joinType)Join an association using the specified join-type, assigning an alias to the joined association. | 
| protected void | createCriteriaInstance() | 
| protected java.util.List | createPagedResultList(java.util.Map args) | 
| protected java.lang.Object | executeUniqueResultWithProxyUnwrap() | 
| protected java.lang.Class | getClassForAssociationType(org.hibernate.type.AssociationType type) | 
| static org.hibernate.criterion.DetachedCriteria | getHibernateDetachedCriteria(AbstractHibernateQuery query, QueryableCriteria<?> queryableCriteria) | 
| Criteria | rlike(java.lang.String propertyName, java.lang.Object propertyValue)Creates a Criterion with from the specified property name and "rlike" (a regular expression version of "like") expression | 
| Methods inherited from class | Name | 
|---|---|
| class AbstractHibernateCriteriaBuilder | readOnly, readOnly, between, distinct, distinct, distinct, distinct, distinct, invokeMethod, property, property, not, gt, le, setConversionService, select, like, setDatastore, avg, avg, getTargetClass, countDistinct, countDistinct, groupProperty, groupProperty, rowCount, rowCount, eqProperty, neProperty, gtProperty, geProperty, ltProperty, leProperty, allEq, eqAll, eqAll, gtAll, gtAll, ltAll, ltAll, geAll, geAll, leAll, leAll, gtSome, gtSome, geSome, geSome, ltSome, ltSome, leSome, leSome, inList, inList, inList, inList, notIn, notIn, lte, ge, idEquals, notExists, isNotNull, idEq, sqlRestriction, sqlRestriction, rlike, ilike, sizeEq, sizeGt, sizeGe, sizeLe, sizeLt, sizeNe, ne, notEqual, gte, listDistinct, buildCriteria, setUniqueResult, getDefaultFlushMode, setDefaultFlushMode, scroll, fetchMode, createAlias, createAlias, resultTransformer, isNotEmpty, lock, get, cache, cache, count, count, count, min, min, max, max, isEmpty, join, lt, getInstance, in, in, in, in, list, list, sum, sum, eq, eq, eq, isNull, order, order, order, order, exists, and, or, id, getMetaClass, setMetaClass, setProperty, getProperty, wait, wait, wait, equals, toString, hashCode, getClass, notify, notifyAll | 
| class groovy.lang.GroovyObjectSupport | groovy.lang.GroovyObjectSupport#getMetaClass(), groovy.lang.GroovyObjectSupport#setMetaClass(groovy.lang.MetaClass), groovy.lang.GroovyObjectSupport#invokeMethod(java.lang.String, java.lang.Object), groovy.lang.GroovyObjectSupport#setProperty(java.lang.String, java.lang.Object), groovy.lang.GroovyObjectSupport#getProperty(java.lang.String), groovy.lang.GroovyObjectSupport#wait(long, int), groovy.lang.GroovyObjectSupport#wait(long), groovy.lang.GroovyObjectSupport#wait(), groovy.lang.GroovyObjectSupport#equals(java.lang.Object), groovy.lang.GroovyObjectSupport#toString(), groovy.lang.GroovyObjectSupport#hashCode(), groovy.lang.GroovyObjectSupport#getClass(), groovy.lang.GroovyObjectSupport#notify(), groovy.lang.GroovyObjectSupport#notifyAll() | 
Join an association using the specified join-type, assigning an alias to the joined association. The joinType is expected to be one of CriteriaSpecification.INNER_JOIN (the default), CriteriaSpecificationFULL_JOIN, or CriteriaSpecificationLEFT_JOIN.
associationPath -  A dot-seperated property pathalias -            The alias to assign to the joined association (for later reference).joinType -         The type of join to use.Creates a Criterion with from the specified property name and "rlike" (a regular expression version of "like") expression
propertyName -   The property namepropertyValue -  The ilike value