[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Created: (HHH-3420) MatchMode doesn't escape wildcard characters

[Hontvári József (JIRA)]

MatchMode doesn't escape wildcard characters
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                 Key: HHH-3420
                 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-3420
             Project: Hibernate3
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: query-criteria
    Affects Versions: 3.2.2
         Environment: MySQL
            Reporter: Hontvári József
            Priority: Minor


One can think that by specifying e.g. MatchMode.START in a "like" restriction Hibernate takes care of escaping SQL LIKE wildcard characters in the supplied pattern. It doesn't, actually Hibernate only inserts a % before the first character.

I am not sure what was the intent of the original author (Gavin King), so the issue may only be missing documentation. However I don't see any other useful purpose of this class then providing database independent escaping. It seems that all databases use the % wildcard, so there is no need to provide database indpeendence to that.

It can be argued that this might create a security problem for an unaware developer, so I set issue type to bug.

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