InvalidDataAccessApiUsageException: Parameter value [...] did not match expected type [java.util.UUID (n/a)]

I'm using Criteria API to build named queries using filters. It works on normal String comparisons but when filtering on UUID it throws the following error:

org.springframework.dao.InvalidDataAccessApiUsageException: Parameter value [67279329-5096-4196-9E73-748B33122CE2] did not match expected type [java.util.UUID (n/a)]; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Parameter value [67279329-5096-4196-9E73-748B33122CE2] did not match expected type [java.util.UUID (n/a)]

There are several questions addressing this issue but none of them worked, I tried the following:

• adding @Column(name = "id", updatable = false, nullable = false) to the entity field
• adding @Type(type="org.hibernate.type.UUIDCharType") to the entity field
• adding @Type(type="uuid-char") to the entity field

Foo entity:

@Entity
//lombok stuff
public class Foo {

    @Id
    private UUID id;
    private String name;
    //...
}

SQL Variant:

CREATE TABLE foo
(
    id                    UUID    NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
    name                  VARCHAR NOT NULL,
    ...
);

FooController:

@GetMapping(value = "/foo")
public ResponseEntity<List<Foo>> findFoos(@RequestParam Map<String, String> filterArguments) {
    FooFilter filter = filterMapper.map(filterArguments);
    FooSpecification spec = new FooSpecification(filter);

    List<Foo> foos = fooRepo.findAll(spec);
    //...
}

FooSpecification:

public class FooSpecification extends SpecificationHelper implements Specification<Foo> {
    private final FooFilter filter;

    public FooSpecification(FooFilter filter) {
        this.filter = filter;
    }

    @Override
    public Predicate toPredicate(Root<Foo> root, CriteriaQuery<?> query, CriteriaBuilder criteriaBuilder) {
        Predicate predicate = null;

        predicate = createIdPredicate(root, filter, criteriaBuilder, predicate);
        predicate = createNamePredicate(root, filter, criteriaBuilder, predicate);
        // ...

        return predicate;
    }

    private Predicate createIdPredicate(Root<Foo> foo, FooFilter filter, CriteriaBuilder cb, Predicate predicate) {
        Predicate returnPredicate = predicate;
        if (StringUtils.isNotBlank(filter.getId()))
            returnPredicate = addAndPredicate(cb, predicate, cb.like(cb.upper(foo.get("id")), "%" + filter.getId().toUpperCase() + "%"));
        return returnPredicate;
    }

    private Predicate createNamePredicate(Root<Foo> foo, FooFilter filter, CriteriaBuilder cb, Predicate predicate) {
        Predicate returnPredicate = predicate;
        if (StringUtils.isNotBlank(filter.getName()))
            returnPredicate = addAndPredicate(cb, predicate, cb.like(cb.upper(foo.get("name")), "%" + filter.getName().toUpperCase() + "%"));
        return returnPredicate;
    }
}

addAndPredicate is a simple helper method that just uses criteriaBuilder.and(predicate,newPredicate)

FooFilter only has String fields

I fixed the issue using typecasting provided by the Criteria API.

Before:

addAndPredicate(..., ..., cb.like(cb.upper(foo.get("id")), ...));

After:

addAndPredicate(..., ..., cb.like(cb.upper(foo.get("id").as(String.class)), ...));

From: https://docs.oracle.com/javaee/6/api/javax/persistence/criteria/Expression.html#as(java.lang.Class)

<X> Expression<X> as(java.lang.Class<X> type)

Perform a typecast upon the expression, returning a new expression object. This method does not cause type conversion: the runtime type is not changed. Warning: may result in a runtime failure.