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POJPA criteriabuilder "IN" predicate on foreign key error: Object comparisons can only use the equal() or notEqual() operators
 

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    <p>I want to select a list of file references from a table by looking at which users have the rights to retrieve that file. To do this I have 3 tables, a file table, an access control table, and a users table.</p> <p>I am using JPA and Criteriabuilder (because there are more tables involved and I need dynamicle create the query, I am leaving out the other tables and predicates from this question for the sake of readability). </p> <p>The following code works</p> <pre><code>CriteriaBuilder queryBuilder = em.getCriteriaBuilder(); CriteriaQuery&lt;File&gt; queryDefinition = queryBuilder.createQuery(File.class); Root&lt;File&gt; FileRoot = queryDefinition.from(File.class); List&lt;Predicate&gt; predicateList = new ArrayList&lt;Predicate&gt;(); Predicate userPredicate = FileRoot .join("FileAccesControlCollection").join("userId").get("usersId").in(loggedInUser.getUsersId()); predicateList.add(userPredicate ); queryDefinition.where(predicateArray).distinct(true); Query q = em.createQuery(queryDefinition); List&lt;Files&gt; results = (List&lt;Files&gt;) q.getResultList(); </code></pre> <p>For the userpredicate I want to leave out the last join to the users table because the ID that I want to filter on is already present in the FileAccesControlCollection table, and a join is a computational expensive database operation.</p> <p>What I tried is to do this:</p> <pre><code>Predicate userPredicate = FileRoot .join("FileAccesControlCollection").get("usersId").in(loggedInUser.getUsersId()); </code></pre> <p>But I guess because the userId value in the FileAccesControlCollection entity class is a foreignkey reference to the Users class I get the following error:</p> <pre><code>Exception Description: Object comparisons can only use the equal() or notEqual() operators. Other comparisons must be done through query keys or direct attribute level comparisons. </code></pre> <p>Is there a way, using the loggedInUser entity or its Id, to filter the files by just joining the File class to the FileAccesControlCollection class and filtering on the userId foreign key? I am kind of new to JPA and using google lead me to a lot of pages but not a clear answer for something which seems to me should be possible. </p>
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