Hi. Sorry for the late response--I was hit hard by a bug going around.
I want to thank everyone for their helpful responses. In summary,
Andrus really addressed the core of my question. It appears that we'll
have to augment Cayenne's query syntax to support the type of query I
wanted to use (in CayenneModeler).
Thanks again for your help!
Travis
> I guess what Travis wanted is not to match on a known name, but rather
> retrun all pets that match the owner name, regardless of what the name
> is... I just staged a little test using "Master" and "Detail" entities.
> For the exact match this works just fine:
...
> I was able to work around it by building the expression manually with
> this
> ugly code:
>
> exp = ExpressionFactory.likeIgnoreCaseExp("master.name",
> ExpressionFactory.unaryExp(Expression.OBJ_PATH, "name"));
>
> But this also means that you can't store such expression in the Modeler
> :-/ Travis, could you open a bug report, we may need to expand the BNF
> to
> support that
> (http://objectstyle.org/cayenne/grammar/ExpressionParser.html)
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