How to create an instance of CriteriaBuilder using JPA

Question

How to create an instance of CriteriaBuilder using JPA in a provider agnostic way? i.e. we don't want to use HibernateUtil to fetch HibernateSession

Session session = HibernateUtil.getHibernateSession();
CriteriaBuilder cb = session.getCriteriaBuilder();

Answer 1

A provider agnostic way to create instance of CriteriaBuilder in Spring Boot JPA:

import jakarta.persistence.EntityManager;

@Autowired
private EntityManager entityManager;
// ...

CriteriaBuilder cb = entityManager.getCriteriaBuilder();