I just had the need for something like that myself.
Comparing an int with a string.
On 11/19/05, Andrus Adamchik <andru..bjectstyle.org> wrote:
> We should support that, but looks like there is no Jira issue (and
> hence - no activity) - we need to open one.
>
> On a related note, there have been requests to do on the fly type
> conversions when evaluating expressions in memory (e.g. when doing a
> comparison across different numeric types). Now such functionality
> also seems within reach - new "cayenne.property" package has a number
> of non-public converters that do something similar already.
>
> Andrus
>
>
>
> On Nov 18, 2005, at 7:05 PM, Cris Daniluk wrote:
>
> > I'm having a little bit of trouble using Expression.fromString with
> > integer fields that are mapped as booleans... for some reason, the BNF
> > doesn't include true/false, but because the ObjEntity treats the
> > property as a boolean, I can't just search with 1/0. It seems to me
> > like either 1/0 should be supported for booleans, or TRUE/FALSE should
> > be added to the BNF (or both).
> >
> > I found this post, where Andrus agreed:
> >
> > http://www.objectstyle.org/cayenne/lists/cayenne-user/
> > 2004/05/0027.html
> >
> > But no further activity. I'm not sure what the difficulty of adding it
> > is, as I'm not very familiar with the JavaCC...
> >
> > Cris
> >
> >
>
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