Hello all. For past few days am I investigating the possibility of using postgres' inet datatype in JPQL expressions.
Of course, I can use NativeQuery, but I would like to refrain from using it if not absolutely necessary. I've created InetFieldStrategy which extends StringFieldStrategy and I've mapped it as default for all IPAddresses in my model. Loading, merging and persisting inets work fine. (of course, it would be nice if only there was some example how to create strategies, I've had some rough times). Now I would like to use inet operators to query database. All standard JPQL operators (such as <, >, <=, >=, <>, =) work fine. I guess that this is due to fact that OpenJPA now treats inet fields internally as Strings. But I would like also to use <<, >> (contains subnet, subnet contains) operators. JPQL parser complains that it does not recognize literals "<<" or ">>". Do I need to patch openjpa and extend JPQL.jjt and JPQLExpressionBuilder.java? Is there another possibility? Thank you for your answer. -- Rade Martinović, M.Sc.E.E Software architect Belgrade University Computer Center Kumanovska 7, 126119 Beograd Serbia Tel: +381-11-3031258 Fax: +381-11-3031259 Email: r...@rcub.bg.ac.rs Internet: http://www.rcub.bg.ac.rs
