Hibernate Using In And Like Clause Together

I have the follow hibernate code, session.createQuery('from Car as car where car.keywordName like :keyword').setString('keyword', keyword ).list(); which takes in a keyword with

Solution 1:

You'll have to dynamically create a query to create something like

select car from Car car 
where car.keywordName like :k1 
or car.keywordName like :k2
or car.keywordName like :k3
...

The best tool to do that is the Criteria API (See the third code snippet, using a disjunction, for an example of a list of restrictions seperated with or).