[Hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (HB-474) adding Criteria.count() method

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The following comment has been added to this issue:

     Author: Chris Nelson
    Created: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 9:31 AM
       Body:
All,

As the originator of this patch, I have at this point given up on the existing Hibernate Criteria API as it is.  The count issue, the awkwardness of using subcriteria, the lack of ability to do ordering on related object properties, there were simply too many problems that made it unusable for the purposes of our applications.  

Instead, we developed our own Criteria API that generates HQL.  At this point we have been using it for a year and it is pretty mature.  It is able to do nested properties to an arbitrary level, do auto-joins across collection properties, supports projection and aggregration, etc.  If there is interest, I can talk to my client about releasing it as open source.  However, as I'm sure the Hibernate dev team will tell you, I see absolutely NO chance it will ever be included in the main Hibernate code base.  I would, howevery, be happy to put it up on dev.java.net if there is interest and my client is willing.  But since I no longer use the Hibernate Criteria API, I will not be supporting this count() patch anymore.

--Chris
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Here is an overview of the issue:
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        Key: HB-474
    Summary: adding Criteria.count() method
       Type: Patch

     Status: Unassigned
   Priority: Major

 Original Estimate: Unknown
 Time Spent: Unknown
  Remaining: Unknown

    Project: Hibernate2
 Components: 
             core
   Versions:
             2.1
             2.1 rc1

   Assignee: 
   Reporter: Chris Nelson

    Created: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 12:53 PM
    Updated: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 9:31 AM

Description:
Adds a count() method to the Criteria class that does a modified query to return the count without returning entire query.


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