org.hibernate.hql.ast.QuerySyntaxException on entity named Group ----------------------------------------------------------------- Key: HHH-2918 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-2918 Project: Hibernate3 Issue Type: Bug Components: query-hql Reporter: Viorel Andronic I don't know exactly who is the responsible for this: hibernate.hql or javax.el but when I use a entity named Group and a query like select group from klaw.entity.security.Group group where lower(group.name) like concat(lower(:el1),'%') I get a big stack trace that contains the following information, in sequence 16:21:01,968 INFO [STDOUT] Hibernate: select group0_.id as id0_, group0_.name as name0_ from security.group group0_ limit ? 16:21:02,015 ERROR [PARSER] line 1:64: unexpected token: group 16:21:02,031 WARN [lifecycle] javax.el.ELException: /GroupList.xhtml @41,58 rendered="#{empty groupList.resultList}": Error reading 'resultList' on type klaw.entity.security.GroupList_$$_javassist_37 16:21:02,312 ERROR [PARSER] line 1:64: unexpected token: group 16:21:02,328 ERROR [STDERR] Oct 29, 2007 4:21:02 PM com.sun.facelets.FaceletViewHandler handleRenderException SEVERE: Error Rendering View[/GroupList.xhtml] javax.faces.FacesException: javax.el.ELException: /GroupList.xhtml @41,58 rendered="#{empty groupList.resultList}": Error reading 'resultList' on type klaw.entity.security.GroupList_$$_javassist_37 at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.isRendered(UIComponentBase.java:373) at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.encodeAll(UIComponent.java:880) ... Caused by: javax.el.ELException: /GroupList.xhtml @41,58 rendered="#{empty groupList.resultList}": Error reading 'resultList' on type klaw.entity.security.GroupList_$$_javassist_37 at com.sun.facelets.el.TagValueExpression.getValue(TagValueExpression.java:76) at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.isRendered(UIComponentBase.java:370) ... 44 more Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: org.hibernate.hql.ast.QuerySyntaxException: unexpected token: group near line 1, column 64 [select group from klaw.entity.security.Group group where lower(group.name) like concat(lower(:el1),'%')] at org.hibernate.ejb.AbstractEntityManagerImpl.throwPersistenceException(AbstractEntityManagerImpl.java:616) at org.hibernate.ejb.AbstractEntityManagerImpl.createQuery(AbstractEntityManagerImpl.java:95) ... Caused by: org.hibernate.hql.ast.QuerySyntaxException: unexpected token: group near line 1, column 64 [select group from klaw.entity.security.Group group where lower(group.name) like concat(lower(:el1),'%')] at org.hibernate.hql.ast.QuerySyntaxException.convert(QuerySyntaxException.java:31) at org.hibernate.hql.ast.QuerySyntaxException.convert(QuerySyntaxException.java:24) at org.hibernate.hql.ast.ErrorCounter.throwQueryException(ErrorCounter.java:59) at org.hibernate.hql.ast.QueryTranslatorImpl.parse(QueryTranslatorImpl.java:258) at org.hibernate.hql.ast.QueryTranslatorImpl.doCompile(QueryTranslatorImpl.java:157) at org.hibernate.hql.ast.QueryTranslatorImpl.compile(QueryTranslatorImpl.java:111) at org.hibernate.engine.query.HQLQueryPlan.<init>(HQLQueryPla 16:21:02,328 ERROR [STDERR] n.java:77) at org.hibernate.engine.query.HQLQueryPlan.<init>(HQLQueryPlan.java:56) at org.hibernate.engine.query.QueryPlanCache.getHQLQueryPlan(QueryPlanCache.java:72) at org.hibernate.impl.AbstractSessionImpl.getHQLQueryPlan(AbstractSessionImpl.java:133) at org.hibernate.impl.AbstractSessionImpl.createQuery(AbstractSessionImpl.java:112) at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.createQuery(SessionImpl.java:1623) at org.hibernate.ejb.AbstractEntityManagerImpl.createQuery(AbstractEntityManagerImpl.java:92) ... 76 more 16:21:02,343 ERROR [PARSER] line 1:64: unexpected token: group 16:21:02,343 ERROR [PARSER] line 1:64: unexpected token: group 16:21:02,359 ERROR [PARSER] line 1:64: unexpected token: group 16:21:02,375 ERROR [PARSER] line 1:64: unexpected token: group 16:21:02,375 ERROR [PARSER] line 1:64: unexpected token: group 16:21:02,375 ERROR [PARSER] line 1:67: unexpected token: group I managed to avoid this by changing the query to select grp from klaw.entity.security.Group grp where lower(grp .name) like concat(lower(:el1),'%') The content of the el1 is the following: #{groupList.group.name} and I didn't change it for the running version of the hql -- 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