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+/*
+ * Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
+ *
+ * License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 2.1 or later.
+ * See the lgpl.txt file in the root directory or <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html>.
+ */
+package org.hibernate.jpa.test.criteria.size;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collection;
+import javax.persistence.CascadeType;
+import javax.persistence.Entity;
+import javax.persistence.Id;
+import javax.persistence.ManyToMany;
+import javax.persistence.Table;
+import javax.persistence.TypedQuery;
+import javax.persistence.criteria.CriteriaBuilder;
+import javax.persistence.criteria.CriteriaQuery;
+import javax.persistence.criteria.Expression;
+import javax.persistence.criteria.Root;
+
+import org.hibernate.jpa.test.BaseEntityManagerFunctionalTestCase;
+
+import org.hibernate.testing.TestForIssue;
+import org.junit.Before;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.is;
+import static org.hibernate.testing.transaction.TransactionUtil.doInJPA;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;
+
+/**
+ * @author Andrea Boriero
+ */
+@TestForIssue(jiraKey = "HHH014245")
+public class CriteriaSelectSizeCollectionTest extends BaseEntityManagerFunctionalTestCase {
+	@Override
+	protected Class<?>[] getAnnotatedClasses() {
+		return new Class[] { Customer.class, Alias.class };
+	}
+
+	@Before
+	public void setUp() {
+		doInJPA( this::entityManagerFactory, entityManager -> {
+					 Customer customer = new Customer( "1", "Phil" );
+					 Alias alias = new Alias( "2", "p" );
+					 customer.addAlias( alias );
+					 entityManager.persist( customer );
+				 }
+		);
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void testSelectCollectionSize() {
+		doInJPA( this::entityManagerFactory, entityManager -> {
+					 CriteriaBuilder criteriaBuilder = entityManager.getCriteriaBuilder();
+					 CriteriaQuery<Integer> query = criteriaBuilder.createQuery( Integer.class );
+					 Root<Customer> customer = query.from( Customer.class );
+
+					 Expression<Integer> aliases = criteriaBuilder.size( customer.get( "aliases" ) );
+					 query.select( aliases );
+					 query.where( criteriaBuilder.equal( customer.get( "id" ), "1" ) );
+
+					 TypedQuery<Integer> tq = entityManager.createQuery( query );
+					 Integer size = tq.getSingleResult();
+					 assertThat( size, is( 1 ) );
+				 }
+		);
+	}
+
+	@Entity(name = "Customer")
+	@Table(name = "CUSTOMER_TABLE")
+	public static class Customer {
+
+		@Id
+		private String id;
+
+		private String name;
+
+		@ManyToMany(cascade = CascadeType.ALL)
+		private Collection<Alias> aliases = new ArrayList<>();
+
+		public Customer() {
+		}
+
+		public Customer(String id, String name) {
+			this.id = id;
+			this.name = name;
+		}
+
+		public String getId() {
+			return id;
+		}
+
+		public void setId(String id) {
+			this.id = id;
+		}
+
+		public String getName() {
+			return name;
+		}
+
+		public void setName(String name) {
+			this.name = name;
+		}
+
+		public void addAlias(Alias alias) {
+			aliases.add( alias );
+		}
+	}
+
+	@Entity(name = "Alias")
+	@Table(name = "ALIAS_TABLE")
+	public static class Alias implements java.io.Serializable {
+
+		@Id
+		private String id;
+
+		private String alias;
+
+		public Alias() {
+		}
+
+		public Alias(String id, String alias) {
+			this.id = id;
+			this.alias = alias;
+		}
+
+		public String getId() {
+			return id;
+		}
+
+		public void setId(String id) {
+			this.id = id;
+		}
+
+		public String getAlias() {
+			return alias;
+		}
+
+		public void setAlias(String alias) {
+			this.alias = alias;
+		}
+	}
+
+}