how to escape colon in HQL

Question

I have condition part of my query as follows:

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where foo.bar like '%:%'

the query would execute but with no result. I think it's because of the colon since it is a reserved char in HQL. So how can I escape it without sending the : as a parameter to my query.

I have already used '%\:%' and '%\\:%' with no success.

Answer 1

I found a solution: q=q.replaceAll(":","'||unistr('\\003A')||'");