Hibernate Criterion IN Clause 1000 break up

/**
* An utility method to build the Criterion Query IN clause if the number of parameter
* values passed has a size more than 1000. Oracle does not allow more than
* 1000 parameter values in a IN clause. Doing so a {@link SQLException} is
* thrown with error code, 'ORA-01795: maximum number of expressions in a list is 1000'.
* @param propertyName
* @param values
* @return
*/
public static Criterion buildInCriterion(String propertyName, List values)
{
Criterion criterion = null;
int listSize = values.size();
for (int i = 0; i < listSize; i += PARAMETER_LIMIT) {
List subList;
if (listSize > i + PARAMETER_LIMIT) {
subList = values.subList(i, (i + PARAMETER_LIMIT));
}
else {
subList = values.subList(i, listSize);
}
if (criterion != null) {
criterion = Restrictions.or(criterion, Restrictions.in(propertyName, subList));
}
else {
criterion = Restrictions.in(propertyName, subList);
}
}
return criterion;
}