MongoRepository JSON Date Query (Spring)

Question

I am trying to use make my own query for a mongo Repository:

@Repository
public interface LogEntryRepository extends MongoRepository<LogEntry,String> {

    @Query("{'created_at' : {{ $gte: ISODate(?0)},{$lt: ISODate(?1)}}, " +
        "$or: [{'site': {$regex: ?2}}, {'login': {$regex: ?2}}, {'ip': {$regex: ?2}} ]" +
        "}")
    public Page<LogEntry> findByDateTimeBetweenAndCriteria(String isoStartDate, String isoEndDate, String searchTerm, Pageable page);

}

What I'd like to achieve is searching though dated logs with a keyword. The above complains about a parse error:

        Caused by: com.mongodb.util.JSONParseException: 
    {'created_at' : { $gte: ISODate("_param_0"), $lt: ISODate("_param_1")}, $or: [{'site': {$regex: "_param_2"}}, {'login': {$regex: "_param_2"}}, {'ip': {$regex: "_param_2"}} ]}
                            ^

If I replace the ISODate(?0) with simply ?0 it produces Page 1 of 0 containing UNKNOWN instances

The Strings isoStartDate & isoEndDate are produced from java.util.Date and look like this 2017-06-27T00:00:00.000Z

How do I get my date in there?

Answer 1

ISODate is a Mongo shell construct to create a BSON date and definitely not valid JSON, which is what I believe your error is complaining about.

Try replacing the above ISODate calls with { '$date' : '?0' } and { '$date' : '?1' } as suggested in this answer. All the strings should probably need to be surrounded in single quotes.