Question

I want to get a list of objects from the database between a given date time range. How do I achieve that ? This is the solution I am currently using, but it doesn’t return anything… and the given values are correct.

public List getRegistrationsForUserOnDate(Date startdate, Date enddate){
        Set<Date> dateSet = new HashSet<Date>();
        Calendar calendar = new GregorianCalendar();
        calendar.setTime(enddate);

        while (calendar.getTime().before(startdate))
        {
            Date resultado = calendar.getTime();
            dateSet.add(resultado);
            calendar.add(Calendar.DATE, 1);
        }

        String query = "from Registration where date = '" + Validation.convertToValidDateTime(startdate, true) + "'";
        for(Date date : dateSet){
            query += " AND date = '" + Validation.convertToValidDateTime(date, true)+"'";
        }             
        return em.createQuery(query).getResultList();           
    }

for example:

startdate  = Fri Jun 15 12:07:31 CEST 2012

enddate = Wed Jun 13 12:07:31 CEST 2012 

Then this methods query looks like this (data copied from debug mode):

from TimeRegistration where date = '2012-06-15 00:00:00' AND date = '2012-06-14 00:00:00' AND date = '2012-06-13 00:00:00'

These are some sample fields that are present in the database:

id |       date          |comment|FK|FK|FK
132|"2012-06-08 00:00:00"|    "" | 6| 2| 1
133|"2012-06-15 00:00:00"|    "" | 8| 1| 1
134|"2012-06-14 00:00:00"|    "" | 3| 2| 1
135|"2012-06-13 00:00:00"|    "" | 1| 3| 1

Answer 1

How can date equal two different dates? Not surprised you don’t get anything.

date = ‘2012-06-15 00:00:00’ AND date = ‘2012-06-14 00:00:00’ – so if todays date is thursday and friday return it?

Should you be using OR rather than AND, or better still, greater and less than or between?

from TimeRegistration where date between '2012-06-13 00:00:00' and '2012-06-15 00:00:00'