JPA Criteria orderBy: unexpected AST node - jpa

Question

I have the following criteria query, which retrieves some fields from Anfrage and Sparte entities and also the translated string for the sparte.i18nKey.
This works as expected if I dont use orderBy.
Now I have the requirement to sort by the translated string for sparte.i18nKey and using the orderBy as shown below, results in QuerySyntaxException: unexpected AST node
So the problem must be the subselect in the orderBy clause!
select distinct new
my.domain.model.dto.AnfrageDTO(
anfrage0.id,
anfrage0.name,
anfrage0.sparte.id,
anfrage0.sparte.i18nKey,
-- retrieve translated string for sparte.i18nKey
(select rb0.value from at.luxbau.mis2.domain.model.ResourceBundleEntity as rb0
where (anfrage0.sparte.i18nKey = rb0.key) and (rb0.language = 'de'))
)
from my.domain.model.impl.Anfrage as anfrage0
left join anfrage0.sparte as sparte
order by (
-- sort by translated string for sparte.i18nKey
select rb1.value
from my.domain.model.ResourceBundleEntity as rb1
where (anfrage0.sparte.i18nKey = rb1.key) and (rb1.language = 'de')
) asc
My Java code looks like this:
private List<AnfrageDTO> getAnfragen() {
CriteriaBuilder cb = entityManager.getCriteriaBuilder();
CriteriaQuery<AnfrageDTO> query = cb.createQuery(AnfrageDTO.class);
Root<Anfrage> anfrage = query.from(Anfrage.class);
anfrage.join(Anfrage_.sparte, JoinType.LEFT);
query.select(cb.construct(AnfrageDTO.class,
anfrage.get(Anfrage_.id),
anfrage.get(Anfrage_.name),
anfrage.get(Anfrage_.sparte).get(Sparte_.id),
anfrage.get(Anfrage_.sparte).get(Sparte_.i18nKey),
// create subquery for translated sparte.i18nKey
createResourceBundleSubQuery(cb, query, anfrage.get(Anfrage_.sparte).get(Sparte_.i18nKey)).getSelection()));
TypedQuery<AnfrageDTO> tq = entityManager
.createQuery(query)
// use subquery to sort by translated sparte.i18nKey
.orderBy(cb.asc(createResourceBundleSubQuery(cb, query, anfrage.get(Anfrage_.sparte).get(Sparte_.i18nKey))));
tq.setMaxResults(10);
List<AnfrageDTO> anfragen = tq.getResultList();
return anfragen;
}
public Subquery<String> createResourceBundleSubQuery(CriteriaBuilder cb, CriteriaQuery<?> query, <String> expr) {
Subquery<String> subquery = query.subquery(String.class);
Root<ResourceBundleEntity> rb = subquery.from(ResourceBundleEntity.class);
subquery
.select(rb.get(ResourceBundleEntity_.value))
.where(cb.and(
cb.equal(expr, rb.get(ResourceBundleEntity_.key)),
cb.equal(rb.get(ResourceBundleEntity_.language), "de")));
return subquery;
}
Using a native SQL query with subselect in orderBy works also as expected.
select distinct
anfrage0_.id,
anfrage0_.name,
anfrage0_.sparte_id,
sparte4_.i18n_key,
(select rb3.i18n_value from resource_bundle rb3 where rb3.language_code = 'de' and rb3.i18n_key = sparte4_.i18n_key) as sparte_i18n_value
from
mis2.anfrage anfrage0_
left outer join mis2.sparte sparte4_ on anfrage0_.sparte_id = sparte4_.id
order by (
select rb.i18n_value
from mis2.resource_bundle rb
where sparte4_.i18n_key = rb.i18n_key and rb.language_code = 'de'
) asc
Also using an alias in the native SQL query works also as expected.
select distinct
anfrage0_.id,
anfrage0_.name,
anfrage0_.sparte_id,
sparte4_.i18n_key,
(select rb3.i18n_value from resource_bundle rb3 where rb3.language_code = 'de' and rb3.i18n_key = sparte4_.i18n_key) as sparte_i18n_value
from
mis2.anfrage anfrage0_
left outer join mis2.sparte sparte4_ on anfrage0_.sparte_id = sparte4_.id
order by sparte_i18n_value
asc
It would be great if JPA Criteria API would support using an alias in orderBy clause!
Any hints welcome - Thank you!
My environment is WildFly 11 and PostgreSQL 9.6.

Answer 1

JPA doesn't support passing parameter in order by clause, your problem has been asked before: Hibernate Named Query Order By parameter