title: Hibernate: could not locate named parameter
body: <p>In my Hibernate code, I am executing a SQL command. There I have a <code>LIKE</code> statement. The code is below.</p>
  
  <pre><code>public List&lt;Object[]&gt; searchProducts(String searchTerm, Session session) {
          Query query = session.createSQLQuery("SELECT product_request_advertisement.idproduct_request_advertisement,\n"
                  + "                product_request_advertisement.user_iduser,\n"
                  + "                product_request_advertisement.product_idproduct,\n"
                  + "                product_request_advertisement.product_units_idproduct_units,\n"
                  + "                product_request_advertisement.type,\n"
                  + "                product_request_advertisement.grade,\n"
                  + "                product_request_advertisement.quantity,\n"
                  + "                product_request_advertisement.expected_price,\n"
                  + "                product_request_advertisement.required_place,\n"
                  + "                product_request_advertisement.required_date,\n"
                  + "                product_request_advertisement.extra_information,\n"
                  + "                product_request_advertisement.expire_on,\n"
                  + "                product_request_advertisement.delete_timestamp,\n"
                  + "                product_request_advertisement.date_created,\n"
                  + "                product_request_advertisement.last_updated,\n"
                  + "                user.name,\n"
                  + "                product_unit.unit_name\n"
                  + "                FROM product_request_advertisement\n"
                  + "                INNER JOIN user ON product_request_advertisement.user_iduser = user.iduser\n"
                  + "                INNER JOIN product_unit ON product_unit.idproduct_unit = product_request_advertisement.product_units_idproduct_units\n"
                  + "                INNER JOIN product ON product.idproduct = product_request_advertisement.product_idproduct\n"
                  + "                WHERE product_request_advertisement.delete_timestamp is null\n"
                  + "                AND product_request_advertisement.approved=true \n"
                  + "                AND product_request_advertisement.type LIKE '% :searchTerm %' or product.product_name LIKE '% :searchTerm %' \n"
                  + "                GROUP BY product_request_advertisement.idproduct_request_advertisement");
  
          System.out.println("DAO SEARCHTERM: " + searchTerm);
          query.setParameter("searchTerm", searchTerm);
  
          List&lt;Object[]&gt; list = query.list();
          return list;
      }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I execute this code, I get the following error.</p>
  
  <pre><code>org.hibernate.QueryParameterException: could not locate named parameter [searchTerm]
      at org.hibernate.engine.query.spi.ParameterMetadata.getNamedParameterDescriptor(ParameterMetadata.java:148)
      at org.hibernate.engine.query.spi.ParameterMetadata.getNamedParameterExpectedType(ParameterMetadata.java:165)
      at org.hibernate.internal.AbstractQueryImpl.determineType(AbstractQueryImpl.java:523)
      at org.hibernate.internal.AbstractQueryImpl.setParameter(AbstractQueryImpl.java:493)
      at lk.maningmarket.api.dao.product_request_advertisement.ProductRequestAdvertisementDAOImpl.searchProducts(ProductRequestAdvertisementDAOImpl.java:206)
      at lk.maningmarket.api.service.ProductRequestAdvertisementService.searchProducts(ProductRequestAdvertisementService.java:685)
      at lk.maningmarket.api.rest.RequestAdvertisementJSONService.searchProducts(RequestAdvertisementJSONService.java:155)
      at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
      at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
      at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
      at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:566)
      at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.internal.ResourceMethodInvocationHandlerFactory.lambda$static$0(ResourceMethodInvocationHandlerFactory.java:76)
      at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.internal.AbstractJavaResourceMethodDispatcher$1.run(AbstractJavaResourceMethodDispatcher.java:148)
      at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.internal.AbstractJavaResourceMethodDispatcher.invoke(AbstractJavaResourceMethodDispatcher.java:191)
      at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.internal.JavaResourceMethodDispatcherProvider$TypeOutInvoker.doDispatch(JavaResourceMethodDispatcherProvider.java:243)
      at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.internal.AbstractJavaResourceMethodDispatcher.dispatch(AbstractJavaResourceMethodDispatcher.java:103)
      at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.ResourceMethodInvoker.invoke(ResourceMethodInvoker.java:493)
      at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.ResourceMethodInvoker.apply(ResourceMethodInvoker.java:415)
      at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.ResourceMethodInvoker.apply(ResourceMethodInvoker.java:104)
      at org.glassfish.jersey.server.ServerRuntime$1.run(ServerRuntime.java:277)
      at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors$1.call(Errors.java:272)
      at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors$1.call(Errors.java:268)
      at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors.process(Errors.java:316)
      at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors.process(Errors.java:298)
      at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors.process(Errors.java:268)
      at org.glassfish.jersey.process.internal.RequestScope.runInScope(RequestScope.java:289)
      at org.glassfish.jersey.server.ServerRuntime.process(ServerRuntime.java:256)
      at org.glassfish.jersey.server.ApplicationHandler.handle(ApplicationHandler.java:703)
      at org.glassfish.jersey.servlet.WebComponent.serviceImpl(WebComponent.java:416)
      at org.glassfish.jersey.servlet.WebComponent.service(WebComponent.java:370)
      at org.glassfish.jersey.servlet.ServletContainer.service(ServletContainer.java:389)
      at org.glassfish.jersey.servlet.ServletContainer.service(ServletContainer.java:342)
      at org.glassfish.jersey.servlet.ServletContainer.service(ServletContainer.java:229)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:231)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:166)
      at org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:53)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:166)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:199)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:96)
      at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:490)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:139)
      at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:92)
      at org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:668)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:74)
      at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:343)
      at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.service(Http11Processor.java:408)
      at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProcessorLight.process(AbstractProcessorLight.java:66)
      at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:834)
      at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1417)
      at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SocketProcessorBase.run(SocketProcessorBase.java:49)
      at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1128)
      at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:628)
      at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
      at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:834)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This is probably due to an incorrect way I have written the <code>searchTerm</code> between the <code>LIKE</code> command, but how can I solve this?</p>