Query: Usability of classes inside Internal package

Hibernate ORM
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Based on the primary analysis I found that in version 5.2 ValueHandlerFactory and entire criteria package was moved to org.hibernate.jpa.criteria → org.hibernate.query.criteria.internal .
Commit: 774b805

For some of my internal work I needed some of ValueHandlerFactory static classes and add few of my customized valueHandler to convert my string to a specific type so that I don’t need to implement everything from scratch.

Question is when something is moved to a internal package does it means that is not recommend to use/extend it or there is some other way I can use org.hibernate.query.criteria.internal.ValueHandlerFactory and extend its functions?

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You can use that, but it might change in any release, so we don’t recommend you to do that unless you are ok with adapting your code every once in a while.

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