Hi folks !

I'm new to hibernate but already read some tutorials, reference manuals and wrote some test applications. First thanks to all of you who contributed to hibernate, it's a geat software !

My Question:

Is there any possibility in a HQL query, to use the return value of a method
call in the where clause... something like this:

"from Object o where o.equals(?)", otherObject

Since I already noticed that it might not be the best idea to overwrite the equals-method I still think this could be nice :)

thx, for you answers
Oliver

HQL is translated to SQL which is executed by the database. Calling methods is not supported.

Hi all !

Thx for your answer Gavin !

I understand that calling methods is not possible, but I found something
that does exactly what I wanted to achive with my "pseudo"-query

Object o=new Object();
o.setSomething("maybe a String");
Criteria c=session.createCriteria(Object.class);
criteria.add(Example.create(o));
List l=criteria.list();

nice :))

btw. I've read that in the book from Gavin and Christian which Christian
recommended to me today. The book is excellent !!! You did a good job
in making thinks clear :)