Steve Ebersole commented on an issue
Hibernate ORM / New Feature HHH-8478
AttributeConverters need to be applied to JPQL and Criteria queries
From section 3.8 of the JPA spec:
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The persistence provider must apply any conversion methods to instances of attribute values in path expressions used within Java Persistence query language queries or criteria queries (such as in comparisons, bulk updates, etc.) before sending them to the database for the query execution. When such converted attri...