JPQL CASE STATEMENT in WHERE CLAUSE PROBLEMS

Question

I have some problems with case statement in where clause. If someone knows how to fix this please help me! Thank you.

 @Query("select e from EventTeamPlayer etp "
                + "join etp.event e "
                + "left join e.leagueTournament lt "
                + "left join lt.sportCategory sc "
                + "left join e.sport s "
                + "left join etp.homeTeamPlayer htpl "
                + "left join etp.awayTeamPlayer atpl "
                + "left join lt.country c "
                + "left join e.eventStatus es "
                + "where (e.startDate >= :startDate and e.startDate <= :endDate) "
                + "and lt.id = :leagueTournamentId "
                + "and (lt.defaultName like :searchTerm or "
                     + "s.name like :searchTerm or "
                     + "htpl.name like :searchTerm or "
                     + "atpl.name like :searchTerm or "
                     + "e.id like :searchTerm) and "
                     + "(case when (:minDate is not null and :maxDate is not null) "
                     + " then (e.startDate >=:minDate and e.startDate<=:maxDate)   else true end) = true")
    Page<Event> getEventsForWebAdmin(Pageable pageable, 
                                     @Param("searchTerm") String searchTerm, 
                                     @Param("leagueTournamentId") int leagueTournamentId, 
                                     @Param("startDate") Date startDate, 
                                     @Param("endDate") Date endDate,
                                     @Param("minDate") Date minDate,
                                     @Param("maxDate") Date maxDate);

AND HERE IS THE ERROR IN LOG :

Caused by: org.hibernate.hql.internal.ast.QuerySyntaxException: unexpected AST node: and near line 1, column 589 [select e from com.itengine.bettinggateway.dao.EventTeamPlayer etp join etp.event e left join e.leagueTournament lt left join lt.sportCategory sc left join e.sport s left join etp.homeTeamPlayer htpl left join etp.awayTeamPlayer atpl left join lt.country c left join e.eventStatus es where (e.startDate >= :startDate and e.startDate <= :endDate) and (lt.defaultName like :searchTerm or s.name like :searchTerm or htpl.name like :searchTerm or atpl.name like :searchTerm or e.id like :searchTerm) and (case when (:minDate is not null and :maxDate is not null) then (e.startDate >=:minDate and e.startDate<=:maxDate) else true end) = true and lt.id = :leagueTournamentId]

Answer 1

I dont think you can pull that kind of statement in JPQL.

Try to replace it with something like this:

AND
(
   (:minDate is not null and :maxDate is not null
         and e.startDate >=:minDate and e.startDate<=:maxDate)
   OR
   (:minDate is null or :maxDate is  null)                   
)

Answer 2

If you look at the JPQL API docs , it says that:

when_clause::= WHEN conditional_expression THEN scalar_expression

So then clause can use:

scalar_expression ::= arithmetic_expression | string_primary | enum_primary | datetime_primary | boolean_primary | case_expression | entity_type_expression

And you are violating this within your then clause. Try to replace your CASE with AND-OR combination.