JPA concat operator

Question

Is there a JPA concat operator for string concatenation?

I know there is a JPA CONCAT function, however its ugly to use for concatenating multiple strin

Answer 1

The CONCAT function was extended in JPA 2.0 to allow passing more than 2 parameters, from section 4.6.17.2.1 (String Functions) of the specification:

CONCAT(string_primary, string_primary {, string_primary}* )

In JPA 1 this was restricted to exactly two parameters.

Answer 2

You can also use || as a concatenate operator, see on the documentation

HQL defines a concatenation operator in addition to supporting the concatenation (CONCAT) function. This is not defined by JPQL, so portable applications should avoid it use. The concatenation operator is taken from the SQL concatenation operator - ||.

Example 11.19. Concatenation operation example

select 'Mr. ' || c.name.first || ' ' || c.name.last
from Customer c
where c.gender = Gender.MALE

Answer 3

You can use JPA Concat function for multiple strings.

For example:

CONCAT(cola, colb, colc, cold)