Originally posted by Benson Fung:
I found that the input parameter must be upper case.
Do anyone know what the problem is? Can I change to case insensitive?
If you mean that the *data* is in uppercase and thus you need to uppercase the input parameters themselves (not the CMP field names in the EJB-QL, though those should be standard JavaBeans identifiers like coNum and vendNum to match the getCoNum() and getVendNum() accessors), you'll need to do one of the following.
Wait for EJB 2.1 compliant servers to implement the UPPER EJB-QL function.Use your vendor's EJB-QL extensions if they implement UPPER.Uppercase the parameter in a facade method before passing it to the finder. If you need to perform a case-insensitive search against a mixed-case attribute, you may have to do a funky work-around to avoid using vendor extensions.
If you're using Oracle and WebLogic, for example, you could create a function-based index on the column and use WebLogic's syntax for passing a select hint to Oracle. This way you won't have to uppercase the parameter. However, you're tied to both Oracle and WebLogic at that point.
I got around this by adding another attribute that is the uppercase version of the attribute I want to search (email in my case). When email is set, I also set the uppercased version. The finder then searches on this new attribute, and I uppercase the parameter before feeding it to the finder. This way I'm not using any WL- or Oracle-specific features from my beans.
I would have been tempted to use the select hint, but that would require embedding "'/* use <index> */'" in the EJB-QL. Since I'm using XDoclet to generate the finders, the EJB-QL is in the class's JavaDoc, and the */ would terminate the comment.