JPA Criteria Query distinct
I got it. The problem was my CriteraQuery needed to be of type String. This works: CriteriaBuilder builder = em.getCriteriaBuilder(); CriteriaQuery<String> query = builder.createQuery(String.class); Root<RuleVar> ruleVariableRoot = query.from(RuleVar.class); query.select(ruleVariableRoot.get(RuleVar_.varType)).distinct(true);