The spring data JPA query needs the "%" chars as well as a space char following like
in your query, as in
@Query("Select c from Registration c where c.place like %:place%")
.
Cf. http://docs.spring.io/spring-data/jpa/docs/current/reference/html.
You may want to get rid of the @Query
annotation alltogether, as it seems to resemble the standard query (automatically implemented by the spring data proxies); i.e. using the single line
List<Registration> findByPlaceContaining(String place);
is sufficient.