Recently I create a new restriction to find entities by PK using the clausule IN.

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package com.ig.ibest.persistence.hibernate.criterion;

import java.util.List;

import org.hibernate.Criteria;

import org.hibernate.HibernateException;

import org.hibernate.criterion.CriteriaQuery;

import org.hibernate.criterion.Criterion;

import org.hibernate.criterion.Restrictions;

import org.hibernate.engine.TypedValue;

/**

* Constraint to find by ID using clausule IN

*

* @author hnqoliveira

*

*/

public class IdentifierInExpression implements Criterion {

    private static final long serialVersionUID = -3120283684494528083L;

    private final Object[] values;

    private Criterion delegate;

    public IdentifierInExpression(List<Object> values) {

        this.values = values.toArray();

    }

    @Override

    public String toSqlString(Criteria criteria, CriteriaQuery criteriaQuery) throws HibernateException {

        String idProp = getIdProperty(criteria, criteriaQuery);

        delegate = Restrictions.in(idProp, values);

        return delegate.toSqlString(criteria, criteriaQuery);

    }

    @Override

    public TypedValue[] getTypedValues(Criteria criteria, CriteriaQuery criteriaQuery) throws HibernateException {

        return delegate.getTypedValues(criteria, criteriaQuery);

    }

    @Override

    public String toString() {

        return delegate.toString();

    }

    /**

     * Retrieve propertyName that represent the Identifier of table

     *

     * @param criteria

     * @param criteriaQuery

     * @return

     */

    private String getIdProperty(Criteria criteria, CriteriaQuery criteriaQuery) {

        return criteriaQuery.getFactory().getIdentifierPropertyName(criteriaQuery.getEntityName(criteria));

    }

}

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I create the method in my GenericDAO

    public List<T> find(List<ID> ids) throws DAOException {

        if(ids.size() == 1) {

            T obj = find(ids.get(0));

            return (obj != null)?Collections.<T>singletonList(obj):Collections.<T>emptyList();

        }

        try {

            Criteria criteria = createCriteria().add(new IdentifierInExpression(ids));

            return criteria.list();

        } catch (Exception e) {

            throw new DAOException("An error occurs while find entities of class " + clazz+" with ids "+ids, e);

        }

    }