JPA 2 No explicit selection and an implicit one cold not be determined

I am trying to fetch all users for a folder where the user was created after a certain date. the relationship between the user and the folder lives in a seperate table.

This is the query I came up with but it thorws the exception

The code

@Override
public List<RetailPostUserTbl> getNewUsersForSiteSince( Date date, Integer siteId )
{
    List<RetailPostUserTbl> toReturn = new ArrayList<RetailPostUserTbl>();
    EntityManager em = getEntityManager();
    CriteriaBuilder cb = em.getCriteriaBuilder();

    Class<RpUserFolderMapTbl> userFolderPC = userFolderMapDAO.getPersistentClass();

    CriteriaQuery<RpUserFolderMapTbl> mapQuery = cb.createQuery( userFolderPC );
    Root<RpUserFolderMapTbl> root = mapQuery.from( userFolderPC );
    Path<Integer> folderIdPath = root.get( RpUserFolderMapTbl_.folder ).get( FolderTbl_.folderId );

    Predicate folderCondition = cb.equal( folderIdPath, siteId );

    Subquery<RetailPostUserTbl> rpSubQ = mapQuery.subquery( persistentClass );
    Root<RetailPostUserTbl> subQRoot = rpSubQ.from( persistentClass );
    Path<UserTbl> userPath = subQRoot.get( RetailPostUserTbl_.user );
    Path<Date> userCreatedPath = userPath.get( UserTbl_.userCreateDate );
    Predicate userCreateDateCondition = cb.greaterThanOrEqualTo( userCreatedPath, date );
    rpSubQ.where( userCreateDateCondition );

    mapQuery.where( cb.and( folderCondition, cb.exists( rpSubQ ) ) );

    TypedQuery<RpUserFolderMapTbl> query = em.createQuery( mapQuery );
    List<RpUserFolderMapTbl> results = query.getResultList();
    for ( RpUserFolderMapTbl result : results )
    {
        RetailPostUserTbl rpuser = result.getUser().getRetailPostUser();
        toReturn.add( rpuser );
    }
    return toReturn;
}

Anyone know why this is not working?

Answers

You should set explicitly selection also for "subqueries".

rpSubQ.select(subQRoot);

I had the exact same error today. The funny thing is that I grabbed my example from Hibernate 3.6.3.Final docs. Their example is:

CriteriaQuery query = builder.createQuery();
Root<Person> men = query.from( Person.class );
Root<Person> women = query.from( Person.class );
Predicate menRestriction = builder.and(
    builder.equal( men.get( Person_.gender ), Gender.MALE ),
    builder.equal( men.get( Person_.relationshipStatus ), RelationshipStatus.SINGLE )
);
Predicate womenRestriction = builder.and(
    builder.equal( women.get( Person_.gender ), Gender.FEMALE ),
    builder.equal( women.get( Person_.relationshipStatus ), RelationshipStatus.SINGLE )
);
query.where( builder.and( menRestriction, womenRestriction ) );

What I did to "fix" the error is explicitly select the root. Note I had to create one root to solve this. Here is my example:

CriteriaQuery query = builder.createQuery();
Root<Person> personRoot = query.from( Person.class );
Predicate menRestriction = builder.and(
    builder.equal( personRoot.get( Person_.gender ), Gender.MALE ),
    builder.equal( personRoot.get( Person_.relationshipStatus ), RelationshipStatus.SINGLE )
);
Predicate womenRestriction = builder.and(
    builder.equal( personRoot.get( Person_.gender ), Gender.FEMALE ),
    builder.equal( personRoot.get( Person_.relationshipStatus ), RelationshipStatus.SINGLE )
);
query.select(personRoot);
query.where( builder.and( menRestriction, womenRestriction ) );

What I can't figure out is why an implicit selection could not be made. In Hibernate's example the only class that is used is Person.class. I'll update my response when I dig in a little further.

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