I m trying to create a query with the Criteria API from JPA 2.0, but I can t make it work.

The problem is with the "between" conditional method. I read some documentation to know how I have to do it, but since I m discovering JPA, I don t understand why it does not work.

First, I can t see "creationDate" which should appear when I write "Transaction_."

I thought it was maybe normal, since I read the metamodel was generated at runtime, so I tried to use Foo_.getDeclaredSingularAttribute("value") instead of Foo_.value , but it still doesn t work at all.

Here is my code :

public List<Transaction> getTransactions(Date startDate, Date endDate) {
    EntityManager em = getEntityManager();
    try {
        CriteriaBuilder cb = em.getCriteriaBuilder();
        CriteriaQuery<Transaction> cq = cb.createQuery(Transaction.class);
        Metamodel m = em.getMetamodel();
        EntityType<Transaction> Transaction_ = m.entity(Transaction.class);
        Root<Transaction> transaction = cq.from(Transaction.class);

        // Error here. cannot find symbol. symbol: variable creationDate
        cq.where(cb.between(transaction.get(Transaction_.creationDate), startDate, endDate));

        // I also tried this:
        // cq.where(cb.between(Transaction_.getDeclaredSingularAttribute("creationDate"), startDate, endDate));

        List<Transaction> result = em.createQuery(cq).getResultList();
        return result;
    } finally {
        em.close();
    }
}

Can someone help me to figure this out? Thanks.

EDIT : here is the Transaction source (almost nothing in it, since it was automatically generated by Netbeans, from my database)

package projetjava.db;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.Date;
import javax.persistence.Basic;
import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue;
import javax.persistence.GenerationType;
import javax.persistence.Id;
import javax.persistence.NamedQueries;
import javax.persistence.NamedQuery;
import javax.persistence.Table;
import javax.persistence.Temporal;
import javax.persistence.TemporalType;

@Entity
@Table(name = "transaction")
@NamedQueries({
    @NamedQuery(name = "Transaction.findAll", query = "SELECT t FROM Transaction t"),
    @NamedQuery(name = "Transaction.findById", query = "SELECT t FROM Transaction t WHERE t.id = :id"),
    @NamedQuery(name = "Transaction.findByIDAccount", query = "SELECT t FROM Transaction t WHERE t.iDAccount = :iDAccount"),
    @NamedQuery(name = "Transaction.findByDescription", query = "SELECT t FROM Transaction t WHERE t.description = :description"),
    @NamedQuery(name = "Transaction.findByCreationDate", query = "SELECT t FROM Transaction t WHERE t.creationDate = :creationDate"),
    @NamedQuery(name = "Transaction.findByAmount", query = "SELECT t FROM Transaction t WHERE t.amount = :amount")})
public class Transaction implements Serializable {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
    @Basic(optional = false)
    @Column(name = "ID")
    private Integer id;
    @Basic(optional = false)
    @Column(name = "IDAccount")
    private int iDAccount;
    @Basic(optional = false)
    @Column(name = "Description")
    private String description;
    @Basic(optional = false)
    @Column(name = "CreationDate")
    @Temporal(TemporalType.DATE)
    private Date creationDate;
    @Basic(optional = false)
    @Column(name = "Amount")
    private double amount;

    public Transaction() {
    }

    public Transaction(Integer id) {
        this.id = id;
    }

    public Transaction(Integer id, int iDAccount, String description, Date creationDate, double amount) {
        this.id = id;
        this.iDAccount = iDAccount;
        this.description = description;
        this.creationDate = creationDate;
        this.amount = amount;
    }

    public Integer getId() {
        return id;
    }

    public void setId(Integer id) {
        this.id = id;
    }

    public int getIDAccount() {
        return iDAccount;
    }

    public void setIDAccount(int iDAccount) {
        this.iDAccount = iDAccount;
    }

    public String getDescription() {
        return description;
    }

    public void setDescription(String description) {
        this.description = description;
    }

    public Date getCreationDate() {
        return creationDate;
    }

    public void setCreationDate(Date creationDate) {
        this.creationDate = creationDate;
    }

    public double getAmount() {
        return amount;
    }

    public void setAmount(double amount) {
        this.amount = amount;
    }

    @Override
    public int hashCode() {
        int hash = 0;
        hash += (id != null ? id.hashCode() : 0);
        return hash;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean equals(Object object) {
        // TODO: Warning - this method won t work in the case the id fields are not set
        if (!(object instanceof Transaction)) {
            return false;
        }
        Transaction other = (Transaction) object;
        if ((this.id == null && other.id != null) || (this.id != null && !this.id.equals(other.id))) {
            return false;
        }
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return "projetjava.db.Transaction[id=" + id + "]";
    }

}