[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (HHH-3992) SQLServer "contains" boolean predicate not handled in HQL

SQLServer "contains" boolean predicate not handled in HQL --------------------------------------------------------- Key: HHH-3992 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-3992 Project: Hibernate Core Issue Type: Improvement Components: query-hql Affects Versions: 3.3.1, 3.3.2 Environment: Hibernate core 3.3.1, JDK 1.6, SQLServer 2003 Reporter: Scott Van Wart The following HQL: select pp from Product pp where CONTAINS( pp.keywords, :keywords ) Will throw this exception: org.hibernate.hql.ast.QuerySyntaxException: unexpected AST node: ( near line 1, column 33 [select pp from Product pp where CONTAINS( pp.keywords, :keywords )] at org.hibernate.hql.ast.QuerySyntaxException.convert(QuerySyntaxException.java:54) at org.hibernate.hql.ast.QuerySyntaxException.convert(QuerySyntaxException.java:47) at org.hibernate.hql.ast.ErrorCounter.throwQueryException(ErrorCounter.java:82) at org.hibernate.hql.ast.QueryTranslatorImpl.analyze(QueryTranslatorImpl.java:258) at org.hibernate.hql.ast.QueryTranslatorImpl.doCompile(QueryTranslatorImpl.java:183) at org.hibernate.hql.ast.QueryTranslatorImpl.compile(QueryTranslatorImpl.java:134) at org.hibernate.engine.query.HQLQueryPlan.<init>(HQLQueryPlan.java:101) at org.hibernate.engine.query.HQLQueryPlan.<init>(HQLQueryPlan.java:80) at org.hibernate.engine.query.QueryPlanCache.getHQLQueryPlan(QueryPlanCache.java:94) at org.hibernate.impl.AbstractSessionImpl.getHQLQueryPlan(AbstractSessionImpl.java:156) at org.hibernate.impl.AbstractSessionImpl.createQuery(AbstractSessionImpl.java:135) at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.createQuery(SessionImpl.java:1650) I tried changing it to this: select pp from Product pp where CONTAINS( pp.keywords, :keywords ) = TRUE But then SQL Server doesn't like it (it produces SQL like "CONTAINS(pkgproduct0_.keywords, ?)=1": org.hibernate.exception.SQLGrammarException: could not execute query using scroll Caused by: com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException: Incorrect syntax near '='.