How to escape wildcard characters in "like" clause in HQL?

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Published on 2010-06-09T13:58:55Z Indexed on 2010/06/09 14:02 UTC
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How can I escape the wildcard characters in a like clause?

E.g.:

select foo from Foo as foo where foo.bar like '%' || :filter ||'%'

query.setParameter("filter", "%");
query.list(); 
// I'd expect to get the foo's containing the '%' in bar, not all of them!

Any ideas?

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