Hello, I recently started using the new Hibernate (EntityManager) 3.5.1 with JPA 2.0, and I was wondering if it was possible to both retrieve a (sub-set) of entities and their count from a single CriteriaQuery instance.

My current implementation looks as follows:

class HibernateResult<T> extends AbstractResult<T> {

    /**
     * Construct a new {@link HibernateResult}.
     * @param criteriaQuery the criteria query
     * @param selector the selector that determines the entities to return
     */
    HibernateResult(CriteriaQuery<T> criteriaQuery, Selector selector, EntityManager entityManager) {
        CriteriaBuilder builder = entityManager.getCriteriaBuilder();
        // Count the entities
        CriteriaQuery<Long> countQuery = builder.createQuery(Long.class);
        Root<T> path = criteriaQuery.from(criteriaQuery.getResultType());
        countQuery.select(builder.count(path));
        final int count = entityManager.createQuery(countQuery).getSingleResult().intValue();
        this.setCount(count);
        // List the entities according to selector
        TypedQuery<T> entityQuery = entityManager.createQuery(criteriaQuery);
        entityQuery.setFirstResult(selector.getFirstResult());
        entityQuery.setMaxResults(selector.getMaxRecords());
        List<T> entities = entityQuery.getResultList();
        this.setEntities(entities);
    }

}

The thing is that I want to count all entities that match my criteria query, but the count method from CriteriaBuilder only seems to take Expression as argument. Is there any quick way of converting my criteria query to an expression?