Wow that mistake in the documentation wasted days of my time. Thankyou
datanucleus.

On Feb 3, 5:40 pm, Ftaylor <finbarrtay...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> There actually seems to be a mistake in the documentation:
>
> > // Give me all Employees with lastName equal to Smith or Jones
>
>     Query query = pm.newQuery(Employee.class,
>                               ":p.contains(lastName)");
>     query.execute(Arrays.asList("Smith", "Jones"));
>
> Surely it should be:
>
> > // Give me all Employees with lastName equal to Smith or Jones
>
>     Query query = pm.newQuery(Employee.class,
>                               "p.contains(:lastName)");
>     query.execute(Arrays.asList("Smith", "Jones"));
>
> On Feb 2, 10:29 pm, "Ikai L (Google)" <ika...@google.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Oy, this is what I get for not running code before posting it. Good looking
> > out.
>
> > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:06 AM, datanucleus <andy_jeffer...@yahoo.com>wrote:
>
> > > >    query.setFilter("aliases == alias");
>
> > > That is invalid JDOQL syntax; the spec is the spec and JDOQL uses Java
> > > syntax.
> > > If you have a collection field then the filter should be
>
> > > aliases.contains(:alias)
>
> > > The poster put the colon in front of a field name (wrong), and
> > > declared a parameter as a variable (wrong).
>
> > > --
> > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
> > > "Google App Engine for Java" group.
> > > To post to this group, send email to
> > > google-appengine-j...@googlegroups.com.
> > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
> > > google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-appengine-java%2B
> > >  unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>
> > > .
> > > For more options, visit this group at
> > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en.
>
> > --
> > Ikai Lan
> > Developer Programs Engineer, Google App 
> > Enginehttp://googleappengine.blogspot.com|http://twitter.com/app_engine

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"Google App Engine for Java" group.
To post to this group, send email to google-appengine-j...@googlegroups.com.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to 
google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit this group at 
http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en.

Reply via email to