Hi Thomas,

Thanks for the reply. Out of curiosity, doesn't Jackrabbit have any helper
classes (e.g. QueryEscapeUtils) that we can use?

Best regards,
Behrang
http://www.behrang.org

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Thomas Mueller <muel...@adobe.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Yes, you can use placeholders. Even dynamically created queries can use
> placeholders.
>
> As for SQL-2, you need to use single quotes, not double quotes. Example:
>
>     SELECT * FROM [cq:PageContent]
>     WHERE [aProperty] <> 'Joe''s Taxi'
>
> You only need to escape single quotes, using a single quote escape
> character:
>
>     String aValue = "Joe's Taxi";
>     String sql2Query = "SELECT * FROM [cq:PageContent] " +
>         "WHERE [aProperty] <> '" + aValue.replaceAll("'", "''") + "'";
>
>
> If you want to use XPath, you can use single quotes or double quotes, but
> usually single quotes are used as well (the same as in SQL-2). XPath
> queries don't support placeholders currently.
>
>
> Regards,
> Thomas
>
>
>
> On 02/12/14 01:39, "Behrang Saeedzadeh" <behran...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Let's pretend I have a JCR 2 query string that is made like this:
> >
> >String sql2Query = "SELECT * FROM [cq:PageContent] " +
> >                   "WHERE [aProperty] <> \" + aValue + "\"";
> >
> >Are there any helper methods using which I can escape aValue?
> >
> >By the way, I already know that in SQL2 we can use placeholders in queries
> >and let the framework take care of escaping of values for us, but if I
> >were
> >to create this query dynamically like this, how can I escape aValueto
> >prevent SQL injection as well as construction of broken queries?
> >
> >Thanks in advance.
> >
> >
> >Best regards,
> >Behrang
> >http://www.behrang.org
>
>

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