JPA CRITERIA QUERY with order by joined columns - jpa

Question

How to invoke order by on a joined entity? I am trying to achieve the following with:
select * from person p inner join telephone t on p.id=t.person_id join sim s on s.id=t.sim_id order by s.name DESC
#Entity
public class Person implements Serializable{
#Id
private Long id;
#OneToMany(orphanRemoval = true, mappedBy = "person", fetch = FetchType.LAZY, cascade = CascadeType.PERSIST)
private List<Telephone> telephonesNumber;
#Entity
public class Telephone implements Serializable {
#Id
private String number;
#Id
#ManyToOne()
#JoinColumn(name = "person_id")
private Person person;
#Id
#ManyToOne(cascade = {})
#JoinColumn(name = "sim_id")
private Sim sim;
#Entity
public class Sim implements Serializable {
#Id
private Long id;
#Column(unique = true)
private String name;
I use specification interface, in this example sorting is on the field person.id and it works
public class PersonSpecification implements Specification<Person> {
#Override
public Predicate toPredicate(Root<Person> root, CriteriaQuery<?> query, CriteriaBuilder builder) {
List<Predicate> predicates = new ArrayList<>();
// there is many different conditions for example
// if(someCondition!=null) {
// predicates.add(builder.like(root.get("someProperty"), someValue));
// }
query.groupBy(root.get("id"));
//there I want to order by Sim.name i dont know how
query.orderBy(builder.asc(root.get("phone")));//this works
return builder.and((predicates.toArray(new Predicate[predicates.size()])));
}
I want to order by Sim.name but i dont know how.

Answer 1

In JPA specification you can use:
query.orderBy(builder.asc(root.join("telephonesNumber").get("sim").get("name")));
to sort by sim name.
For more details:
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Java_Persistence/Querying#Joining.2C_querying_on_a_OneToMany_relationship
If you using JPA Query:
#Query("select s from Person p
join p.telephonesNumber t
join t.sim s order
by t.sim.id desc")
It will produce this:
select * from person p
inner join telephone t on p.id=t.person_id
inner join sim s on t.sim_id=s.id
order by t.sim_id desc
For more details:
https://github.com/abhilekhsingh041992/spring-boot-samples/blob/master/jpa/src/main/java/example/springboot/jpa/repository/PersonRepository.java

Answer 2

another way for that would be using Query method:
List<Telephone> findAllByOrderBySimIdAsc();
Look at this findAllByOrderBySimIdAsc
With the code before, you can get all rows from Telephone ordered by Sim Id.