concat function in EJB QL doesn't nest
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                 Key: OPENJPA-232
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENJPA-232
             Project: OpenJPA
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: jpa
    Affects Versions: 0.9.7
         Environment: Using H2 as the target SQL dialect.
            Reporter: Dan Everton


I'm attempting to do a case insensitive search for a substring within the 
concatenation of two columns. The EJB QL I came up with looks like this:

where lower(concat(concat(e.firstname, ' '), e.surname))) like 
concat(lower(:name), '%')

however trying to execute that results in the following parse exception. 

Caused by: <0.0.0 nonfatal user error> 
org.apache.openjpa.persistence.ArgumentException: Encountered "lower ( concat ( 
concat ( e . firstname , \' \' ) , e . surname ) ) )" at character 32, but 
expected: ["(", ")", "+", ",", "-", ".", ":", "<", "<=", "<>", "=", ">", ">=", 
"?", "ABS", "ALL", "AND", "ANY", "AS", "ASC", "AVG", "BETWEEN", "BOTH", "BY", 
"CONCAT", "COUNT", "CURRENT_DATE", "CURRENT_TIME", "CURRENT_TIMESTAMP", 
"DELETE", "DESC", "DISTINCT", "EMPTY", "ESCAPE", "EXISTS", "FETCH", "FROM", 
"GROUP", "HAVING", "IN", "INNER", "IS", "JOIN", "LEADING", "LEFT", "LENGTH", 
"LIKE", "LOCATE", "LOWER", "MAX", "MEMBER", "MIN", "MOD", "NEW", "NOT", "NULL", 
"OBJECT", "OF", "OR", "ORDER", "OUTER", "SELECT", "SET", "SIZE", "SOME", 
"SQRT", "SUBSTRING", "SUM", "TRAILING", "TRIM", "UPDATE", "UPPER", "WHERE", 
<BOOLEAN_LITERAL>, <DECIMAL_LITERAL>, <IDENTIFIER>, <INTEGER_LITERAL>, 
<STRING_LITERAL>].
        at 
org.apache.openjpa.kernel.jpql.JPQL.generateParseException(JPQL.java:9322)
        at org.apache.openjpa.kernel.jpql.JPQL.jj_consume_token(JPQL.java:9199)
        at 
org.apache.openjpa.kernel.jpql.JPQL.conditional_primary(JPQL.java:1895)
        at 
org.apache.openjpa.kernel.jpql.JPQL.conditional_factor(JPQL.java:1873)
        at org.apache.openjpa.kernel.jpql.JPQL.conditional_term(JPQL.java:1739)
        at 
org.apache.openjpa.kernel.jpql.JPQL.conditional_expression(JPQL.java:1701)
        at org.apache.openjpa.kernel.jpql.JPQL.where_clause(JPQL.java:1548)
        at org.apache.openjpa.kernel.jpql.JPQL.select_statement(JPQL.java:90)
        at org.apache.openjpa.kernel.jpql.JPQL.parseQuery(JPQL.java:62)
        at 
org.apache.openjpa.kernel.jpql.JPQLExpressionBuilder$ParsedJPQL.parse(JPQLExpressionBuilder.java:1652)
        ... 50 more



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