Question

I’m using eclipse indigo and am having “JPA Validation Problems”.

My named query is:

from Person p where p.name = :name

and there is this error:

The query does not start with a valid identifier, has to be either SELECT, UPDATE or DELETE FROM.

But it’s a valid JPQL query. Somebody know how I can remove this error?

If I change my query to

select p from Person p where p.name = :name

there is no more error, but I do not want to change all my queries.

thanks

mp5

Answer 1

It looks to me like any queries that are of the form:

from Person p where p.name = :name

Are not in fact valid JPQL. According to the language reference at:

http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/5/tutorial/doc/bnbuf.html

each statement needs to have either a SELECT, UPDATE or DELETE statement preceding the FROM portion.

Here are more examples:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Persistence_Query_Language

Unfortunately, it looks like you need to update all the queries to make them fit this format.