На вашем месте я бы использовал Criteria API. Вот пример реализации:
public List<User> findUsersByName(final String firstName,
final String lastName){
final boolean hasFirst = firstName != null && firstName.length() > 0;
// if you use Apache Commons / Lang, do it like this:
// final boolean hasFirst = StringUtils.isNotBlank(firstName);
final boolean hasLast = lastName != null && lastName.length() > 0;
if(!hasFirst && !hasLast){
// or throw IllegalArgumentException
return Collections.emptyList();
}
final CriteriaBuilder cb = em.getCriteriaBuilder();
final CriteriaQuery<User> query = cb.createQuery(User.class);
final Root<User> root = query.from(User.class);
if(hasFirst && hasLast){
query.where(cb.and(
likeExpression(cb, root,"lname", lastName),
likeExpression(cb, root, "fname", firstName)
));
} else if(hasFirst){
query.where(likeExpression(cb, root,"fname", firstName));
} else{
query.where(likeExpression(cb, root,"lname", lastName));
}
return em.createQuery(query).getResultList();
}
private static Predicate likeExpression(final CriteriaBuilder cb,
final Root<User> root,
final String path, String parameter){
return cb.like(root.<String> get(path), "*"+parameter.trim()+"*");
}
Теперь вы можете легко создавать перегруженные версии этого метода:
public List<User> findUsersByFullName(final String fullName){
final String[] parts = fullName.split("\\s+");
if(parts.length != 2){
// probably you should assemble first name from all parts
// except the last, but I'm lazy
throw new IllegalArgumentException("Bad name: " + fullName);
}
return findUsersByName(parts[0], parts[1]);
}
public List<User> findUsersByLastName(final String lastName){
return findUsersByName(null, lastName);
}
public List<User> findUsersByFirstName(final String firstName){
return findUsersByName(firstName, null);
}
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