From 99d79f0158c5388d2551cfbdc60fdeb16c7b1ac9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gavin King <gavin@hibernate.org>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 22:19:32 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add a convenience method to CriteriaDefinition

---
 .../org/hibernate/query/criteria/CriteriaDefinition.java     | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/query/criteria/CriteriaDefinition.java b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/query/criteria/CriteriaDefinition.java
index 8845911781e3..aed2c04a1915 100644
--- a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/query/criteria/CriteriaDefinition.java
+++ b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/query/criteria/CriteriaDefinition.java
@@ -222,6 +222,11 @@ public JpaCriteriaQuery<R> restrict(Predicate predicate) {
 		return existing == null ? where( predicate ) : where( existing, predicate );
 	}
 
+	@Incubating
+	public JpaRoot<R> root() {
+		return from(query.getResultType());
+	}
+
 	@Override
 	public HibernateCriteriaBuilder getCriteriaBuilder() {
 		return query.getCriteriaBuilder();