XPath query parameters within XPath functions in java: Expected location path and literal expression arguments for function contains, got: Arguments, $p

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Hi. I'm trying to parameterize an XPath query in java. It works with simple equals operator, but fails with the contains() function: final String xpath = "//System.QueuedTask [MicroflowName = $m] [Status = $s] [contains(Arguments, $p)]"; final IDataTable dataTable = Core .createXPathQuery( xpath // ) .setVariable("m", "A.B") .setVariable("s", QueueTaskStatus.Idle.name()) .setVariable("p", "\"" + 12345 + "\"") .setAmount(10) .executeRaw(context); _ Caused by: com.mendix.connectionbus.ConnectionBusRuntimeException: An exception has occurred for the following request(s): InternalXPathTextGetRequest (depth = 0, amount = 10): //System.QueuedTask [MicroflowName = $m] [Status = $s] [contains(Arguments, $p)] at com.mendix.connectionbus.RequestAnalyzer.doRequest(RequestAnalyzer.scala:35) Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Expected location path and literal expression arguments for function 'contains', got: Arguments, $p at com.mendix.queryparser.xpath.XPathToNqlConverter.com$mendix$queryparser$xpath$XPathToNqlConverter$$withLocationAndLiteralExpressions(XPathToNqlConverter.scala:452) at com.mendix.queryparser.xpath.XPathToNqlConverter$$anonfun$booleanFunction$1.applyOrElse(XPathToNqlConverter.scala:359) at com.mendix.queryparser.xpath.XPathToNqlConverter$$anonfun$booleanFunction$1.applyOrElse(XPathToNqlConverter.scala:354) at scala.PartialFunction$Lifted.apply(PartialFunction.scala:338) at scala.PartialFunction$Lifted.apply(PartialFunction.scala:334) at scala.PartialFunction.unapply(PartialFunction.scala:100) at scala.PartialFunction.unapply$(PartialFunction.scala:100) at scala.runtime.AbstractPartialFunction.unapply(AbstractPartialFunction.scala:27) at com.mendix.queryparser.xpath.XPathToNqlConverter.toFunctionPredicate(XPathToNqlConverter.scala:346) at com.mendix.queryparser.xpath.XPathToNqlConverter.generatePredicate(XPathToNqlConverter.scala:176) at com.mendix.queryparser.xpath.XPathToNqlConverter.$anonfun$generateJoinsWithPredicates$9(XPathToNqlConverter.scala:325) at scala.collection.immutable.List.map(List.scala:250) at com.mendix.queryparser.xpath.XPathToNqlConverter.$anonfun$generateJoinsWithPredicates$8(XPathToNqlConverter.scala:325) at scala.collection.immutable.List.flatMap(List.scala:293) at com.mendix.queryparser.xpath.XPathToNqlConverter.generateJoinsWithPredicates(XPathToNqlConverter.scala:323) at com.mendix.queryparser.xpath.XPathToNqlConverter.generatePathPredicate(XPathToNqlConverter.scala:286) at com.mendix.queryparser.xpath.XPathToNqlConverter.generateQuery$1(XPathToNqlConverter.scala:96) at com.mendix.queryparser.xpath.XPathToNqlConverter.convert(XPathToNqlConverter.scala:112) at com.mendix.queryparser.xpath.XPathToNqlConverter$.$anonfun$convertToNql$1(XPathToNqlConverter.scala:36) at scala.Function1.$anonfun$andThen$1(Function1.scala:87) at com.mendix.queryparser.QueryParserImpl.parseXPathQueryNewStyle(QueryParserImpl.scala:58) at com.mendix.queryparser.QueryParserImpl.$anonfun$parseXPathQueryNew$2(QueryParserImpl.scala:79) at com.mendix.queryparser.ParseableResult$LazyObject.$anonfun$get$1(QueryParser.scala:39) at scala.Option.getOrElse(Option.scala:201) at com.mendix.queryparser.ParseableResult$LazyObject.get(QueryParser.scala:38) at com.mendix.queryparser.ParseableResult.getQuery(QueryParser.scala:27) at com.mendix.connectionbus.retrieve.OqlRequestHandler.doNewQueryHandling(OqlRequestHandler.scala:134) at com.mendix.connectionbus.retrieve.OqlRequestHandler.handleRequest(OqlRequestHandler.scala:54) at com.mendix.connectionbus.retrieve.DataStoreCaller.processOqlGetRequest(DataStoreCaller.scala:31) at com.mendix.connectionbus.retrieve.DataStoreCaller.$anonfun$getResult$1(DataStoreCaller.scala:26) at scala.collection.StrictOptimizedIterableOps.flatMap(StrictOptimizedIterableOps.scala:118) at scala.collection.StrictOptimizedIterableOps.flatMap$(StrictOptimizedIterableOps.scala:105) at scala.collection.immutable.ArraySeq.flatMap(ArraySeq.scala:35) at com.mendix.connectionbus.retrieve.DataStoreCaller.getResult(DataStoreCaller.scala:26) at com.mendix.connectionbus.retrieve.GetRequestHandler.doOtherRequests(GetRequestHandler.scala:69) at com.mendix.connectionbus.retrieve.GetRequestHandler.doRequest(GetRequestHandler.scala:29) at com.mendix.connectionbus.RequestAnalyzer.doRequest(RequestAnalyzer.scala:30) at com.mendix.connectionbus.ConnectionBusImpl.doRequest(ConnectionBusImpl.scala:474) at com.mendix.basis.action.user.RetrieveXPathRawAction.executeAction(RetrieveXPathRawAction.scala:75) at com.mendix.basis.action.user.RetrieveXPathRawAction.executeAction(RetrieveXPathRawAction.scala:21) at com.mendix.systemwideinterfaces.core.UserAction.execute(UserAction.java:58) at com.mendix.basis.actionmanagement.CoreActionHandlerImpl.doCall(CoreActionHandlerImpl.scala:71) at com.mendix.basis.actionmanagement.CoreActionHandlerImpl.call(CoreActionHandlerImpl.scala:48) at com.mendix.core.actionmanagement.internal.InternalCoreAction.call(InternalCoreAction.java:57) at com.mendix.basis.actionmanagement.ActionManager.$anonfun$executeSync$2(ActionManager.scala:106) at com.mendix.util.classloading.Runner$.withContextClassLoader(Runner.scala:20) at com.mendix.basis.actionmanagement.ActionManager.executeSync(ActionManager.scala:105) at com.mendix.basis.action.InternalXPathQuery.executeRaw(InternalXPathQuery.scala:76) at sysutils.actions.GetLastQueuedTask.executeAction(GetLastQueuedTask.java:72) at sysutils.actions.GetLastQueuedTask.executeAction(GetLastQueuedTask.java:1) at com.mendix.systemwideinterfaces.core.UserAction.execute(UserAction.java:58) at com.mendix.basis.actionmanagement.CoreActionHandlerImpl.doCall(CoreActionHandlerImpl.scala:71) at com.mendix.basis.actionmanagement.CoreActionHandlerImpl.call(CoreActionHandlerImpl.scala:48) at com.mendix.core.actionmanagement.internal.InternalCoreAction.call(InternalCoreAction.java:57) at com.mendix.basis.actionmanagement.ActionManager.$anonfun$executeSync$2(ActionManager.scala:106) at com.mendix.util.classloading.Runner$.withContextClassLoader(Runner.scala:20) at com.mendix.basis.actionmanagement.ActionManager.executeSync(ActionManager.scala:105) at com.mendix.basis.actionmanagement.UserActionCallBuilderImpl.execute(UserActionCallBuilderImpl.scala:57) at com.mendix.modules.microflowengine.actions.actioncall.ForegroundJavaAction.doExecute(ForegroundJavaAction.scala:35) at com.mendix.modules.microflowengine.actions.actioncall.ForegroundJavaAction.doExecute(ForegroundJavaAction.scala:11) at com.mendix.modules.microflowengine.actions.actioncall.JavaAction.execute(JavaAction.scala:38) at com.mendix.modules.microflowengine.microflow.impl.MicroflowObject.$anonfun$execute$1(MicroflowObject.scala:32) at scala.Option.flatMap(Option.scala:283) at com.mendix.modules.microflowengine.microflow.impl.MicroflowObject.execute(MicroflowObject.scala:29) at com.mendix.modules.microflowengine.microflow.impl.MicroflowImpl.$anonfun$executeAfterBreakingIfNecessary$2(MicroflowImpl.scala:167) at scala.Option.flatMap(Option.scala:283) at com.mendix.modules.microflowengine.microflow.impl.MicroflowImpl.executeAfterBreakingIfNecessary(MicroflowImpl.scala:167) at com.mendix.modules.microflowengine.microflow.impl.MicroflowImpl.executeAction(MicroflowImpl.scala:114) at com.mendix.systemwideinterfaces.core.UserAction.execute(UserAction.java:58) at com.mendix.basis.actionmanagement.CoreActionHandlerImpl.doCall(CoreActionHandlerImpl.scala:71) at com.mendix.basis.actionmanagement.CoreActionHandlerImpl.call(CoreActionHandlerImpl.scala:48) at com.mendix.core.actionmanagement.internal.InternalCoreAction.call(InternalCoreAction.java:57) at com.mendix.basis.actionmanagement.ActionManager.$anonfun$executeSync$2(ActionManager.scala:106) at com.mendix.util.classloading.Runner$.withContextClassLoader(Runner.scala:20) at com.mendix.basis.actionmanagement.ActionManager.executeSync(ActionManager.scala:105) at com.mendix.basis.component.ExecutionCore.doExecuteSync(ExecutionCore.scala:148) at com.mendix.basis.component.ExecutionCore.doExecuteSync$(ExecutionCore.scala:147) at com.mendix.basis.component.InternalCore.doExecuteSync(InternalCore.scala:24) at com.mendix.basis.component.ExecutionCore.executeSync(ExecutionCore.scala:97) at com.mendix.basis.component.ExecutionCore.executeSync$(ExecutionCore.scala:94) at com.mendix.basis.component.InternalCore.executeSync(InternalCore.scala:24) at com.mendix.modules.microflowengine.MicroflowExecuter$.executeSync(MicroflowExecuter.scala:19) at com.mendix.modules.microflowengine.actions.SubMicroflowAction.execute(SubMicroflowAction.scala:37) at com.mendix.modules.microflowengine.microflow.impl.MicroflowObject.$anonfun$execute$1(MicroflowObject.scala:32) at scala.Option.flatMap(Option.scala:283) at com.mendix.modules.microflowengine.microflow.impl.MicroflowObject.execute(MicroflowObject.scala:29) at com.mendix.modules.microflowengine.microflow.impl.MicroflowImpl.$anonfun$executeAfterBreakingIfNecessary$2(MicroflowImpl.scala:167) at scala.Option.flatMap(Option.scala:283) at com.mendix.modules.microflowengine.microflow.impl.MicroflowImpl.executeAfterBreakingIfNecessary(MicroflowImpl.scala:167) at com.mendix.modules.microflowengine.microflow.impl.MicroflowImpl.executeAction(MicroflowImpl.scala:114) at com.mendix.systemwideinterfaces.core.UserAction.execute(UserAction.java:58) at com.mendix.basis.actionmanagement.CoreActionHandlerImpl.doCall(CoreActionHandlerImpl.scala:71) at com.mendix.basis.actionmanagement.CoreActionHandlerImpl.call(CoreActionHandlerImpl.scala:48) at com.mendix.core.actionmanagement.internal.InternalCoreAction.call(InternalCoreAction.java:57) at com.mendix.basis.actionmanagement.ActionManager.$anonfun$executeSync$2(ActionManager.scala:106) at com.mendix.util.classloading.Runner$.withContextClassLoader(Runner.scala:20) at com.mendix.basis.actionmanagement.ActionManager.executeSync(ActionManager.scala:105) at com.mendix.basis.actionmanagement.MicroflowCallBuilderImpl.execute(MicroflowCallBuilderImpl.scala:62) at com.mendix.webui.actions.client.MicroflowRuntimeOperationExecutor.runMicroflow(MicroflowRuntimeOperationExecutor.scala:131) at com.mendix.webui.actions.client.MicroflowRuntimeOperationExecutor.$anonfun$apply$5(MicroflowRuntimeOperationExecutor.scala:62) at com.mendix.webui.actions.client.RegularClientAction$Helpers$.$anonfun$liftEither$1(RegularClientAction.scala:30) at com.mendix.webui.actions.client.RegularClientAction$Helpers$StateHandler.$anonfun$apply$4(RegularClientAction.scala:56) at com.mendix.webui.requesthandling.helpers.StateHandling.withState(StateHandling.scala:46) at com.mendix.webui.requesthandling.helpers.StateHandling.withState$(StateHandling.scala:43) at com.mendix.webui.actions.client.RegularClientAction$Helpers$StateHandler.withState(RegularClientAction.scala:46) at com.mendix.webui.actions.client.RegularClientAction$Helpers$StateHandler.apply(RegularClientAction.scala:54) at com.mendix.webui.actions.client.RegularClientAction$Helpers$StateHandler.apply(RegularClientAction.scala:46) at com.mendix.webui.actions.client.MicroflowRuntimeOperationExecutor.apply(MicroflowRuntimeOperationExecutor.scala:63) at com.mendix.webui.actions.client.RuntimeOperationAction.$anonfun$apply$1(RuntimeOperationAction.scala:55) at scala.util.Either.flatMap(Either.scala:352) at com.mendix.webui.actions.client.RuntimeOperationAction.apply(RuntimeOperationAction.scala:41) at com.mendix.webui.actions.client.RuntimeOperationAction.apply(RuntimeOperationAction.scala:30) at com.mendix.webui.actions.client.RegularClientAction$Helpers$.$anonfun$liftEither$1(RegularClientAction.scala:30) at com.mendix.webui.actions.client.RegularClientAction.$anonfun$execute$3(RegularClientAction.scala:120) at scala.util.Try$.apply(Try.scala:210) at com.mendix.webui.actions.client.RegularClientAction.$anonfun$execute$2(RegularClientAction.scala:120) at com.mendix.webui.actions.client.RegularClientAction.$anonfun$execute$2$adapted(RegularClientAction.scala:118) at com.mendix.webui.requesthandling.helpers.ContextHandling.$anonfun$inContext$7(ContextHandling.scala:58) at scala.runtime.java8.JFunction0$mcV$sp.apply(JFunction0$mcV$sp.scala:18) at com.mendix.basis.actionmanagement.ActionMonitoring$.$anonfun$monitor$1(ActionMonitoring.scala:52) at com.mendix.util.classloading.Runner$.withContextClassLoader(Runner.scala:20) at com.mendix.basis.actionmanagement.ActionMonitoring$.monitor(ActionMonitoring.scala:52) at com.mendix.webui.requesthandling.helpers.ContextHandling.inContext(ContextHandling.scala:58) at com.mendix.webui.requesthandling.helpers.ContextHandling.inContext$(ContextHandling.scala:32) at com.mendix.webui.actions.client.RegularClientAction.inContext(RegularClientAction.scala:94) at com.mendix.webui.requesthandling.helpers.ContextHandling.inContext(ContextHandling.scala:29) at com.mendix.webui.requesthandling.helpers.ContextHandling.inContext$(ContextHandling.scala:21) at com.mendix.webui.actions.client.RegularClientAction.inContext(RegularClientAction.scala:94) at com.mendix.webui.actions.client.RegularClientAction.$anonfun$execute$1(RegularClientAction.scala:118) at scala.runtime.java8.JFunction0$mcV$sp.apply(JFunction0$mcV$sp.scala:18) at com.mendix.webui.requesthandling.helpers.ProfileHandling.profileRequest(ProfileHandling.scala:14) at com.mendix.webui.requesthandling.helpers.ProfileHandling.profileRequest$(ProfileHandling.scala:10) at com.mendix.webui.actions.client.RegularClientAction.profileRequest(RegularClientAction.scala:94) at com.mendix.webui.actions.client.RegularClientAction.execute(RegularClientAction.scala:115) at com.mendix.webui.requesthandling.ClientRequestHandler.handleAction(ClientRequestHandler.scala:105) at com.mendix.webui.requesthandling.ClientRequestHandler.processRequest(ClientRequestHandler.scala:78) at com.mendix.externalinterface.connector.RequestHandler.doProcessRequest(RequestHandler.java:37) at com.mendix.external.connector.MxRuntimeConnector.$anonfun$processRequest$1(MxRuntimeConnector.scala:54) at com.mendix.external.connector.MxRuntimeConnector.$anonfun$processRequest$1$adapted(MxRuntimeConnector.scala:54) at com.mendix.util.classloading.Runner$.withContextClassLoader(Runner.scala:20) at com.mendix.external.connector.MxRuntimeConnector.processRequest(MxRuntimeConnector.scala:54) at com.mendix.basis.impl.MxRuntimeImpl.processRequest(MxRuntimeImpl.scala:221) at com.mendix.m2ee.appcontainer.server.handler.RuntimeServlet.service(RuntimeServlet.scala:40) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:750) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:764) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$ChainEnd.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1665) at org.eclipse.jetty.websocket.servlet.WebSocketUpgradeFilter.doFilter(WebSocketUpgradeFilter.java:170) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.FilterHolder.doFilter(FilterHolder.java:202) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$Chain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1635) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:527) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextHandle(ScopedHandler.java:221) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:1570) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextHandle(ScopedHandler.java:221) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1385) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextScope(ScopedHandler.java:176) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:484) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:1543) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextScope(ScopedHandler.java:174) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1307) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:129) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:122) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:563) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.lambda$handle$0(HttpChannel.java:505) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.dispatch(HttpChannel.java:762) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.handle(HttpChannel.java:497) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnection.onFillable(HttpConnection.java:282) at org.eclipse.jetty.io.AbstractConnection$ReadCallback.succeeded(AbstractConnection.java:314) at org.eclipse.jetty.io.FillInterest.fillable(FillInterest.java:100) at org.eclipse.jetty.io.SelectableChannelEndPoint$1.run(SelectableChannelEndPoint.java:53) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.AdaptiveExecutionStrategy.runTask(AdaptiveExecutionStrategy.java:416) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.AdaptiveExecutionStrategy.consumeTask(AdaptiveExecutionStrategy.java:385) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.AdaptiveExecutionStrategy.tryProduce(AdaptiveExecutionStrategy.java:272) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.AdaptiveExecutionStrategy.lambda$new$0(AdaptiveExecutionStrategy.java:140) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.ReservedThreadExecutor$ReservedThread.run(ReservedThreadExecutor.java:411) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:936) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$Runner.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:1080) at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:834) _
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Hi,

this is a known issue which is fixed in 10.4. (https://docs.mendix.com/releasenotes/studio-pro/10.4/)  Had that issue quite a while ago.

As a workaround you can inline the parameters by escaping them.

"XPath implementation uses HTML escapes. The only characters that need escaping are the single quote (as it ends the string) as ' and the ampersand (as it starts an escape sequence) as &. Single quotes can also be escaped by doubling them to ''Path implementation uses HTML escapes. The only characters that need escaping are the single quote (as it ends the string) as ' and the ampersand (as it starts an escape sequence) as &. Single quotes can also be escaped by doubling them to ''"

regards, Fabian

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In the line

.setVariable("p", "\"" + 12345 + "\"")

you're wrapping 12345 in double quotes. Did you try single quotes?

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