JPQL / HQL and JPA / Hibernate: boolean expression in select constructor expression not working (unexpected AST node: AND, NPE, HqlSqlWalker.setAlias)?

Question

I have a JPQL instruction to return a sports game schedule:

SELECT NEW com.kawoolutions.bbstats.view.ScheduleGameLine(
    ga.id                                                                                           AS gid
  , ga.scheduledTipoff                                                                              AS scheduledtipoff
  ...
  , sch.finalScore                                                                                  AS homefinalscore
  , sca.finalScore                                                                                  AS awayfinalscore
  , sch.finalScore IS NOT NULL AND sca.finalScore IS NOT NULL                              AS hasfinalscore
)

I want the last expression (boolean) to be evaluated as a boolean to indicate whether the final score of the game has been fully communicated or not (two objects of type Score, here sch and sca to evaluate home and away). However, Hibernate crash is ruled out:

11.02.2011 18:40:16 org.hibernate.hql.ast.ErrorCounter reportError
SCHWERWIEGEND: <AST>:17:32: unexpected AST node: AND
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
    at org.hibernate.hql.ast.HqlSqlWalker.setAlias(HqlSqlWalker.java:1000)
    at org.hibernate.hql.antlr.HqlSqlBaseWalker.aliasedSelectExpr(HqlSqlBaseWalker.java:2381)
    at org.hibernate.hql.antlr.HqlSqlBaseWalker.constructor(HqlSqlBaseWalker.java:2505)
    at org.hibernate.hql.antlr.HqlSqlBaseWalker.selectExpr(HqlSqlBaseWalker.java:2256)
    at org.hibernate.hql.antlr.HqlSqlBaseWalker.selectExprList(HqlSqlBaseWalker.java:2121)
    at org.hibernate.hql.antlr.HqlSqlBaseWalker.selectClause(HqlSqlBaseWalker.java:1522)
    at org.hibernate.hql.antlr.HqlSqlBaseWalker.query(HqlSqlBaseWalker.java:593)
    at org.hibernate.hql.antlr.HqlSqlBaseWalker.selectStatement(HqlSqlBaseWalker.java:301)
    at org.hibernate.hql.antlr.HqlSqlBaseWalker.statement(HqlSqlBaseWalker.java:244)
    at org.hibernate.hql.ast.QueryTranslatorImpl.analyze(QueryTranslatorImpl.java:254)
    at org.hibernate.hql.ast.QueryTranslatorImpl.doCompile(QueryTranslatorImpl.java:185)
    at org.hibernate.hql.ast.QueryTranslatorImpl.compile(QueryTranslatorImpl.java:136)
    at org.hibernate.engine.query.HQLQueryPlan.<init>(HQLQueryPlan.java:101)
    at org.hibernate.engine.query.HQLQueryPlan.<init>(HQLQueryPlan.java:80)
    at org.hibernate.engine.query.QueryPlanCache.getHQLQueryPlan(QueryPlanCache.java:124)
    at org.hibernate.impl.AbstractSessionImpl.getHQLQueryPlan(AbstractSessionImpl.java:156)
    at org.hibernate.impl.AbstractSessionImpl.createQuery(AbstractSessionImpl.java:135)
    at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.createQuery(SessionImpl.java:1770)
    at org.hibernate.ejb.AbstractEntityManagerImpl.createQuery(AbstractEntityManagerImpl.java:272)
    at com.kawoolutions.bbstats.Main.executeJpqlStatement(Main.java:167)
    at com.kawoolutions.bbstats.Main.main(Main.java:154)

When I am surrounded by the last CASE WHEN statement, to return TRUE or FALSE, I get the expected results:

SELECT NEW com.kawoolutions.bbstats.view.ScheduleGameLine(
    ga.id                                                                                           AS gid
  , ga.scheduledTipoff                                                                              AS scheduledtipoff
  ...
  , sch.finalScore                                                                                  AS homefinalscore
  , sca.finalScore                                                                                  AS awayfinalscore
  , CASE WHEN sch.finalScore IS NOT NULL AND sca.finalScore IS NOT NULL THEN TRUE ELSE FALSE END    AS hasfinalscore
  )

I would really like to know why this does not work with CASE WHEN. What is wrong here? It's me? Is this a JPA? Is it hibernate? Error?

Answer 1

. JPA SELECT , CASE.

JPQL JPA:

select_expression ::=
    single_valued_path_expression |
    scalar_expression |
    aggregate_expression |
    identification_variable |
    OBJECT(identification_variable) |
    constructor_expression

constructor_expression ::=
    NEW constructor_name ( constructor_item {, constructor_item}* )

constructor_item ::=
    single_valued_path_expression |
    scalar_expression |
    aggregate_expression |
    identification_variable

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