Enum literals of inner Enum classes require the use of $ in EJB-QL ------------------------------------------------------------------ Key: EJB-388 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/EJB-388 Project: Hibernate Entity Manager Issue Type: Bug Components: EntityManager Affects Versions: 3.4.0.GA Reporter: Onno Molenkamp Priority: Minor When I use an enum literal of an inner enum class in an EJB-QL query using the normal Java syntax for enum literals, I get the following exception: Caused by: org.hibernate.hql.ast.QuerySyntaxException: Invalid path: 'some.package.SomeClass.SomeEnum.ENUMVALUE' [select x from some.package.SomeClass x where x.enumproperty = some.package.SomeClass.SomeEnum.ENUMVALUE] 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) at org.hibernate.ejb.AbstractEntityManagerImpl.createQuery(AbstractEntityManagerImpl.java:93) ... 85 more A workaround is to use the syntax some.package.SomeClass$SomeEnum.ENUMVALUE, but I think the syntax I tried to use should also work. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/secure/Administrators.... - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira