[java] Hibernate Criteria for Dates

In oracle I have dates in format

17-April-2011 19:20:23.707000000

I would like to retrieve all orders for 17-04-2011.

 SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-YYYY");
String myDate = "17-04-2011";
Date date = formatter.parse(myDate);
    Criteria criteria = 
                session.createCriteria(Order.class);
Criterion restrictDate = Restrictions.like("orderDate",date); 

but it brings me empty result:

By using this way you can get the list of selected records.

GregorianCalendar gregorianCalendar = new GregorianCalendar();
Criteria cri = session.createCriteria(ProjectActivities.class);
cri.add(Restrictions.ge("EffectiveFrom", gregorianCalendar.getTime()));
List list = cri.list();

All the Records will be generated into list which are greater than or equal to '08-Oct-2012' or else pass the date of user acceptance date at 2nd parameter of Restrictions (gregorianCalendar.getTime()) of criteria to get the records.

try this,

    String dateStr = "17-April-2011 19:20:23.707000000 ";
    Date dateForm = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMMM-yyyy HH:mm:ss").parse(dateStr);
    SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");  

    String newDate = format.format(dateForm);  

    Calendar today = Calendar.getInstance();
    Date fromDate = format.parse(newDate);
    today.setTime(fromDate);
    today.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR, 1);
    Date toDate= new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy").parse(format.format(today.getTime()));

    Criteria crit = sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().createCriteria(Model.class);
    crit.add(Restrictions.ge("dateFieldName", fromDate));
    crit.add(Restrictions.le("dateFieldName", toDate));
    return crit.list();

If the column is a timestamp you can do the following:

        if(fromDate!=null){
            criteria.add(Restrictions.sqlRestriction("TRUNC(COLUMN) >= TO_DATE('" + dataFrom + "','dd/mm/yyyy')"));
        }
        if(toDate!=null){               
            criteria.add(Restrictions.sqlRestriction("TRUNC(COLUMN) <= TO_DATE('" + dataTo + "','dd/mm/yyyy')"));
        }

        resultDB = criteria.list();