[DDC-1721] LIKE clausule should accept functions on the pattern Created: 21/Mar/12  Updated: 24/Jan/13

Status: Open
Project: Doctrine 2 - ORM
Component/s: ORM
Affects Version/s: 2.1.6
Fix Version/s: None
Security Level: All

Type: Improvement Priority: Major
Reporter: Ignacio Larranaga Assignee: Benjamin Eberlei
Resolution: Unresolved Votes: 1
Labels: None

Attachments: Text File Parser.patch     Text File SqlWalker.patch    

 Description   

Example:
SELECT .... WHERE upper(n.title) LIKE upper(:filter)

should be a valid SQL, now is rejected because the walker only accept a variable or an string expression.

I'm adding a patch to address this.

 Comments   
Comment by Ignacio Larranaga [ 21/Mar/12 ]

Sorry the Parser has to be modified also to allow expressions to be recognized, I'm attaching the necessary patch.

Comment by Benjamin Eberlei [ 22/Mar/12 ]

I am sure there is a reason why the walker doesn't accept this such as not all supported vendors allowing functions in right hand side LIKE expressions, but i am not sure about this.

Comment by Glen Ainscow [ 03/Oct/12 ]

This is not possible either:

WHERE CASE WHEN p.name IS NULL THEN u.username ELSE p.name END LIKE :name

Comment by Thomas Mayer [ 24/Jan/13 ]

In my case it worked when using "=" instead of "LIKE".

//works:
(CASE WHEN (Book.id = BookFrom.id) THEN BookTo.displayName ELSE BookFrom.displayName END) = :name

//[Syntax Error] line 0, col 1217: Error: Expected =, <, <=, <>, >, >=, !=, got 'LIKE'
(CASE WHEN (Book.id = BookFrom.id) THEN BookTo.displayName ELSE BookFrom.displayName END) LIKE :name

So the LIKE operator only needs to be allowed here.

I'm wondering which vendor should not be able to handle that:
The CASE WHEN ... THEN ... END is documented in DQL, and allowed.
LIKE itself is allowed.
If an RDBMs cannot use CASE WHEN and LIKE in combination, this would be a strange limitation.

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