Question

I need to write a generic NamedQuery; such as, find me all the objects where any of the attributes matches the given parameter.

select mo from MyObject mo where mo.ANYAttribute = someParameter

I could not figure out the expression for “where mo.ANYAttribute”. The sort of wildcard such as ” + or * or ANY or .)… Something that will save me from writing query where I have to write manually to check for each attribute such as:

where mo.attribute1= :someParameteror or mo.attribute2 = :someParameter

I am using JPA 2.0.

Is it possible this way or I have to change my approach?

Many Thanks,
Nav

Answer 1

You need to list all attributes of an entity, there is no such thing as ANYAttribute in JPA:

  where mo.attr1=:someParamter or mo.attr2=:someParameter etc.