Question

return sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().
            createQuery("FROM Weather WHERE city_id = :id AND date " +
                    "BETWEEN now()::date AND now()::date + (:days - 1)").
                    setInteger("id", city_id).setString("days", days).list();

getting error:

org.hibernate.hql.ast.QuerySyntaxException: unexpected token: :

How can I use this syntax in HQL?

Basically the problem is that I want to use colon(:) in my query, but when hibernate sees colon, it thinks that it is a paramter(:parameterName is syntax for parameters in HQL), as you can see from my 2 uses(:id and :days).

But when I am using now()::date statement, it is specific postgreSQL syntax, hibernate ruins everything.

Answer 1

Since you’re on Postgres, I would change the date() completely:

return sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().
        createQuery("FROM Weather WHERE city_id = :id AND date " +
                "BETWEEN current_date AND (current_date + (integer :days - 1))").
                setInteger("id", city_id).setString("days", days).list();

See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/functions-datetime.html