Re: EJBQL with aggregrate function render to Java List

From: Steve Wells (websystem..mail.com)
Date: Mon Jan 11 2010 - 23:08:29 EST

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    Sorry forgot to add using Cay3-RC1 (congrats on the release!)

    2010/1/12 Steve Wells <websystem..mail.com>

    > Hi All,
    >
    > I have an EJBQL query selecting a grouped value from a master table
    > (Category.name) and the count of detail rows for each grouping (ie count of
    > the Category.questions), so I get results:
    > cat1, 5
    > cat2, 3
    > cat3, 10
    > etc...
    >
    > Ideally what I need to do is get the results into a java List<?>, so I was
    > hoping (by waving magic Cayenne wand!) that this would work:
    >
    > "select new CategorySummary(c.name, count(q)) from Category c left join
    > c.questions q group by c.name" returning a List<CategorySummary>...but I
    > can't get it working. Is there a prescribed approach for this?
    >
    > At the moment I get this:
    >
    > java.lang.NullPointerException
    > at org.apache.cayenne.ejbql.parser.Compiler.compileEntityResult(Compiler.java:219)
    > at org.apache.cayenne.ejbql.parser.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:200)
    > at org.apache.cayenne.ejbql.parser.EJBQL$EJBQLDefaultParser.compile(EJBQL.java:30)
    > at org.apache.cayenne.query.EJBQLQuery.getExpression(EJBQLQuery.java:122)
    > at org.apache.cayenne.query.EJBQLQueryMetadata.resolve(EJBQLQueryMetadata.java:38)
    > at org.apache.cayenne.query.EJBQLQuery.getMetaData(EJBQLQuery.java:66)
    > at org.apache.cayenne.util.ObjectContextQueryAction.<init>(ObjectContextQueryAction.java:79)
    > at org.apache.cayenne.access.DataContextQueryAction.<init>(DataContextQueryAction.java:48)
    > at org.apache.cayenne.access.DataContext.onQuery(DataContext.java:1278)
    > at org.apache.cayenne.access.DataContext.performQuery(DataContext.java:1267)
    > at org.apache.click.extras.cayenne.CayenneTemplate.performQuery(CayenneTemplate.java:276)
    >
    >
    >
    > CategorySummary.java:
    >
    > CategorySummary {
    > private String name;
    > private Number count;
    >
    > plus getters and setters
    >
    > The EJB spec says you can do something like:
    >
    > SELECT NEW com.acme.example.CustomerDetails(c.id, c.status, o.count)
    > FROM Customer c JOIN c.orders o
    > WHERE o.count > 100
    >
    > Does Cayenne support this?
    >
    > Thanks for any help,
    >
    > Steve
    >



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