Re: hibernate nativequery and uuid

Oh, I see what you mean.  Use EJBQL on a view.  That would probably
work.  Have to get going, so will try that when I get back in several
hours.  I'll let you know how I go.

Andrew wrote:
> I have given it consideration, but haven't tried it as I have
> concluded that I would still have the same issue.  The problem occurs
> with the client attempting to apply a UUID value to filter the result
> set.  So I would still have a datatype mismatch if I were to use a view.
>
> I am confident that I can get it to work if I were to remove Hibernate
> and make a direct JDBC call, as I have tested that approach
> previously.  That is a fall back position.  But I would like if I can
> to keep to a single approach with my DB access for this application if
> I can.
>
> The suggestion was appreciated though.
>
>
>
> A.M. wrote:
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>> On Jul 31, 2008, at 5:57 PM, Andrew wrote:
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>>> I'm currently using JPA with Hibernate as my ORM and have been able
>>> to convince hibernate to play nicely with the Postgresql UUID.  Most
>>> of my queries have been in EJBQL using the JPA entity manager's
>>> createQuery.  However when I try to do a UNION, JPA only returned
>>> the results of the first query, and ignored the other UNION queries,
>>> which is in line with what I have read online, in that JPA does not
>>> support UNIONS.
>>> So I'm currently attempting to go via a createNativeQuery call.  The
>>> keys on the target tables are PostgreSQL UUID data types.  When
>>> doing so I get the following error:
>>>
>>> org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: operator does not exist:
>>> uuid = character varying
>>>
>>> The only relevant thing I have been able to find relating to it is
>>> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2007-12/msg00061.php which
>>> suggests adding a ::uuid cast to the parameter.
>>>
>>> However, when doing that, hibernate thinks that it is a named
>>> parameter and complains.
>>> org.hibernate.QueryException: Not all named parameters have been set
>>>
>>> Hibernate's functionality to declare an escape character for a LIKE
>>> clause does not apply to this.  But in attempting to escape the
>>> colons, getting various other hibernate parsing errors, so my
>>> attempts down this path has not been of help.
>>>
>>> Has anyone else run into this issue and been able to resolve it?
>>>
>>> I'm using Postgresql 8.3.3 on Windows XP, Hibernate 3.2.6.GA and the
>>> Postgresql 8.3-603 JDBC4 driver.
>>
>> Could you use a view to hide the UNION?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> M
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