These methods allows you to tap into the Criteria Queries API so you can do fluent and functional queries with your ORM objects.
Get a brand new criteria builder object to do criteria queries with (See ORM:CriteriaBuilder)
This function returns coldbox.system.orm.hibernate.CriteriaBuilder
Get our hibernate org.hibernate.criterion.Restrictions proxy object that will help you produce criterias.
This function returns an instance of cborm.models.criterion.Restrictions
Adobe ColdFusion will throw an "Invalid CFML construct" for certain CBORM methods that match , such as .and(), .or(), and .eq(). To avoid these errors and build cross-engine compatible code, use .$and(), .$or(), and .isEq().
Key
Type
Required
Default
Description
entityName
string
true
---
The entity name to bind the criteria query to
useQueryCaching
boolean
false
false
Do automatic query caching for queries
queryCacheRegion
string
false
criterias.{entityName}
The queryCacheRegion name property for all queries in this criteria object
datasource
string
false
The datasource to use or default it to the application or entity in use