Question

I tried looking on google but without luck…

I have a SELECT SQLStatement and I want to use the LIKE operator but the parameters won’t work and the query give me an error

    public function getUsersList(username:String):SQLStatement
    {           
        selectRecord= new SQLStatement();
        selectRecord.sqlConnection = connection;                                
        selectRecord.text =
            "SELECT id_user, username,password,profile,leg_cliente " +
            "FROM userlist  " +
            "WHERE username like '%:username%'";            
        selectRecord.parameters[":username"] = username;

        return selectRecord;
    }

The error I got is

‘:username’ parameter name(s) found in parameters property but not in
the SQL specified.

Answer 1

I solved putting the wildcard % in the parameters instead of the statement…

        selectRecord.text =
            "SELECT id_user, username,password,profile,leg_cliente " +
            "FROM userlist  " +
            "WHERE username like :username";            
        selectRecord.parameters[":username"] = "%"+ username+"%";

The starting problem was triggered because the query was like

    selectRecord.text =
        "SELECT id_user, username,password,profile,leg_cliente " +
        "FROM userlist  " +
        "WHERE username like '%:username%'";    

Putting the single quote in the statement won’t let the statement to set the parameter, I suppose because the parameter key (in statement.text) is seen as a text and not a parameter itself…