You might want to track
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENJPA-273, which indirectly
allows functions to be used in GROUP BY clauses in OpenJPA.
-Patrick
On 7/4/07, Michael Bouschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Sreedhar,
according to the JPQL spec you cannot use functions in an ORDER BY
expression, only state field path expressions are allowed.
Regards Michael
> Hi All,
>
> I'm using the following code to execute JPQL.
>
> StringBuffer strBuff = new StringBuffer(30);
> strBuff.append("select model from UserDTO model ");
> if (name != null && name.length() > 0) {
> strBuff.append(" where UPPER(model.name) like
> '%"+(name.toUpperCase())+"%' ");
> }
> strBuff.append(" order by UPPER(model.name) asc");
>
> But I get the following exception. When I remove UPPER in the last line of
> code it is executing without any failure. Shouldn't I use UPPER after
> order?? What I could make out from the following trace is, JPQL is expecting
> a column name instead of a UPPER(model.name). Any help or suggestions.
>
> <0.9.7-incubating nonfatal user error>
> org.apache.openjpa.persistence.ArgumentException: An error occurred while
> parsing the query filter 'select model from UserDTO model order by
> UPPER(model.name) asc'. Error message: <0.9.7-incubating nonfatal user
> error> org.apache.openjpa.kernel.jpql.ParseException: Encountered "UPPER" at
> character 43, but expected: [<IDENTIFIER>].
>
> Sreedhar
>
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