Java – How to count the number of rows of a JPA 2 CriteriaQuery in a generic JPA DAO

I'm new in JPA and want to implement a generic JPA DAO and need to find the number of rows of a query result set to implement pagination. After searching the web, I can't find a practical way to do that. Here is the code suggested in many articles:

public <T> Long findCountByCriteria(CriteriaQuery<?> criteria) {
    CriteriaBuilder builder = em.getCriteriaBuilder();

    CriteriaQuery<Long> countCriteria = builder.createQuery(Long.class);
    Root<?> entityRoot = countCriteria.from(criteria.getResultType());
    countCriteria.select(builder.count(entityRoot));
    countCriteria.where(criteria.getRestriction());

    return em.createQuery(countCriteria).getSingleResult();
}

However, that code doesn't work when using join. Is there any way to count the rows of a query result set using the JPA Criteria API?

UPDATE :
here is the code that create CriteriaQuery :

    CriteriaQuery<T> queryDefinition = criteriaBuilder.createQuery(this.entityClass);
    Root<T> root = queryDefinition.from(this.entityClass);

and some joins may be added to the root until the query have been executed:

public Predicate addPredicate(Root<T> root) {
                Predicate predicate = getEntityManager().getCriteriaBuilder().ge(root.join(Entity_.someList).get("id"), 13);
                return predicate;
}

and the generated exception is like :

org.hibernate.hql.ast.QuerySyntaxException: Invalid path:
'generatedAlias1.id' [select count(generatedAlias0) from entity.Entity
as generatedAlias0 where ( generatedAlias0.id>=13L ) and (
(generatedAlias1.id<=34L ) )]

which generatedAlias1 should be on Entity and generatedAlias0 should be on the association that I joined on that.
Note that I implement Join properly because when I execute query without count query it executes without error and the Join works properly but when I try to execute count query it throws exception.