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The following example shows case insensitive search using HQL. Refer first example for the configuration and mapping. Here :company_name represents named parameter which will be substituted with value set using query.setParameter method.

File Name :	com/bethecoder/tutorials/hibernate/basic/tests/HQLCaseInSensitiveTest.java
Author :	Sudhakar KV
Email :	[email protected]


package com.bethecoder.tutorials.hibernate.basic.tests;



import java.util.List;

import org.hibernate.Query;

import org.hibernate.Session;

import com.bethecoder.tutorials.hibernate.basic.Company;

import com.bethecoder.tutorials.hibernate.basic.util.HibernateUtil;



public class HQLCaseInSensitiveTest {



  /**

   * @param args

   */

  public static void main(String[] args) {



    System.out.println("Companies name like 'aB'");

    getCompanies("aB");

    

    System.out.println("Companies name like 'aRt'");

    getCompanies("aRt");

    

    System.out.println("Companies name like 'rn'");

    getCompanies("rn");

  }

  

  private static void getCompanies(String companyName) {

    Session session = HibernateUtil.getSessionFactory().openSession();

    session.beginTransaction();

    

    String HQL_QUERY = "from Company comp where upper(comp.name) like :company_name";

    Query query = session.createQuery(HQL_QUERY);

    query.setParameter("company_name", "%" + companyName.toUpperCase() + "%");

    

    List<Company> companies = query.list();    

    

    for (Company company : companies) {

      System.out.println(company);

    }

    

    session.getTransaction().commit();

    session.close();

  }



}

Case Insensitive Search