Querying by date field parts: month, year

Hi,
is there ability in JDOQL to get month or year of date field and use them in
filter? Example:
search(Payment.class, "processDate.ext:getYear() == (select
c.createDate.ext:getYear() from Client c where clientID == c.ID)");
thanks,
Povilas

is there ability in JDOQL to get month or year of date field and use them in
filter? Example:
search(Payment.class, "processDate.ext:getYear() == (select
c.createDate.ext:getYear() from Client c where clientID == c.ID)");Unfortunately, there is not. As your example indicates, however, you could code
a custom query extension in Kodo to extract the year from a date in SQL.

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