A query of type MyEntity
is going to return MyEntity
. You want a query for a Long
.
CriteriaBuilder qb = entityManager.getCriteriaBuilder();
CriteriaQuery<Long> cq = qb.createQuery(Long.class);
cq.select(qb.count(cq.from(MyEntity.class)));
cq.where(/*your stuff*/);
return entityManager.createQuery(cq).getSingleResult();
Obviously you will want to build up your expression with whatever restrictions and groupings etc you skipped in the example.