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(Quick Reference) # 6.4.5 Hibernate Query Language (HQL) - Reference Documentation Authors: Graeme Rocher, Peter Ledbrook, Marc Palmer, Jeff Brown, Luke Daley, Burt Beckwith, Lari Hotari Version: 2.3.8 ## 6.4.5 Hibernate Query Language (HQL) GORM classes also support Hibernate's query language HQL, a very complete reference for which can be found in the Hibernate documentation of the Hibernate documentation. GORM provides a number of methods that work with HQL including find, findAll and executeQuery. An example of a query can be seen below:
    def results =
          Book.findAll("from Book as b where b.title like 'Lord of the%'")
#### Positional and Named Parameters In this case the value passed to the query is hard coded, however you can equally use positional parameters:
    def results =
          Book.findAll("from Book as b where b.title like ?", ["The Shi%"])
    def author = Author.findByName("Stephen King")
    def books = Book.findAll("from Book as book where book.author = ?",
                             [author])
Or even named parameters:
    def results =
          Book.findAll("from Book as b " +
                       "where b.title like :search or b.author like :search",
                       [search: "The Shi%"])
    def author = Author.findByName("Stephen King")
    def books = Book.findAll("from Book as book where book.author = :author",
                             [author: author])
#### Multiline Queries Use the line continuation character to separate the query across multiple lines:
    def results = Book.findAll("\
    from Book as b, \
         Author as a \
    where b.author = a and a.surname = ?", ['Smith'])
Triple-quoted Groovy multiline Strings will NOT work with HQL queries. #### Pagination and Sorting You can also perform pagination and sorting whilst using HQL queries. To do so simply specify the pagination options as a Map at the end of the method call and include an "ORDER BY" clause in the HQL:
    def results =
          Book.findAll("from Book as b where " +
                       "b.title like 'Lord of the%' " +
                       "order by b.title asc",
                       [max: 10, offset: 20])
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