Have you tried using CDATA like this (I'd be curious to know if this works or not):
<isNotEmpty prepend="AND" property="description"> <![CDATA[ xyz ]]> </isNotEmpty> Maybe I missed this in the other responses to this thread, but does this work: <isNotEmpty prepend="AND" property="description"> description like '%$description$%' </isNotEmpty> --- Nic Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried the CDATA, but then the <isEmpty> type statements are not > processed and are passed directly to Oracle. > > Thanks for all the suggestions, I'll use the overly awkward concat > solution that Brandon and Paul mentioned. > > - NIc. > > Paul Barry wrote: > > > CDATA is not going to help. The acutal SQL query that iBATIS will > > execute is: > > > > SELECT * > > FROM device,person > > where device.owner = person.regid > > and description like %'this is the descirption'% > > > > You can see how that is going to cause a problem. Change your > query > > in the sqlmap to look like this: > > > > > > SELECT * > > FROM device,person > > where device.owner = person.regid > > and description like '%'||%#description#||'%' > > > > Sheehan, Andrew wrote: > > > >> Hiya, > >> > >> Would you be able to use a CDATA section in your where clause? > >> > >> HTH, > >> > >> Andrew > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Nic Werner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April > > >> 13, 2005 8:57 PM > >> To: ibatis-user-java@incubator.apache.org > >> Subject: LIKE and Wildcards > >> > >> Hi again, > >> Is there a way to use the 'like' operator and also use > wildcards? > >> I'm trying to use Oracle with this, and the following does not > work: > >> > >> SELECT > >> * FROM device,person > >> where device.owner = person.regid > >> <isNotEmpty prepend="AND" property="description"> > >> description like %#description#% > >> (I get invalid symbol) > >> > >> All examples only use the equivalent of #description# which > doesn't > >> add anything of value, it is the equivalent of using '='. > > > >
