How to search current date in Timestamp field of MYSQL using Hibernate Named Query (HQL)?

Question

I tried to pass date using following way but unable to succeed. dateAnswered is field which stores date as 2017-09-13 00:00:00.

Can anyone tell where i am getting wrong:

Way 1: SetParameter

@NamedQuery(name = "findAnswar", query = "SELECT a FROM Answar a WHERE (a.dateAnswered = :currentDate )"

Try 1: 
super.em.createNamedQuery( "findAnswar" , Answar .class ).setParameter( "currentDate", new Date() ); //Not receive any data

Try 2: 
Date date = new Date();
date.setHours(0);
date.setMinutes(0);
date.setSeconds(0);
super.em.createNamedQuery( "findAnswar" , Answar .class ).setParameter( "currentDate",  date) //Not receive any data

Way 2: Set inbuilt parameters

@NamedQuery(name = "findAnswar", query = "SELECT a FROM Answar a WHERE (a.dateAnswered = current_date() )") //NOT WORKS

It works if i do add Temporal to getter:

@Column(name = "DATE_ANASWERED")
@Temporal(TemporalType.DATE)
 public Date getDateAnswered () {
  return dateAnswered ;
}

BUT IT GIVES another issue : Caused by: org.hibernate.HibernateException: Wrong column type in db.ANSWAR for column DATE_ANASWERED. Found: datetime, expected: date

 @NamedQuery(name = "findAnswar", query = "SELECT a FROM Answar a WHERE (a.dateAnswered = current_date )") //NOT WORKS - JPA errors

Even in previous answers of Stackoverflow i am not able to find any related solution. Can anyone help in fixing the same using Named Query only?

Answer 1

Able to achieve it doing following changes to named query and it worked like charm:

"SELECT a FROM Answar a WHERE cast(a.dateAnswered as date) = current_date()

As underlying type is datetime so so we need to cast it to date to use current_date()