General querydsl query. Dynamic path generation with left joins.

Question

I had a problem when using JPA with Querydsl and Hibernate to manage the data warehouse. The sample model is as follows:

@Entity
public class User {
    ....

    @ManyToOne
    @JoinColumn(name = "CATEGORY_ID")
    private Category category;
}

@Entity
public class Category {
    ..
    private String acronym;

    @OneToMany(mappedBy = "category")    
    List<User> userList;    
}

In my Spring MVC webapp, I have a search form with user parameters and orderBy. Choosing orderBy can be either a User property or a Category property. OrderBy parameters are saved as Map (fe {"login": "adm", {"firstName": "John"}. The search function accepts the search parameters (as a string) and the map above indicating the order. For ordering:

Map<String, String> orderByMap = new HashMap<String, String>();
orderByMap.put("firstName", "asc");
orderByMap.put("unit.acronym", "desc");

PathBuilder<User> pbu = new PathBuilder<User>(User.class, "user");

....

for (Map.Entry<String, String> order : orderByMap.entrySet())
{
    // for simplicity I've omitted asc/desc chooser
    query.orderBy(pbu.getString(order.getKey()).asc());
}

, Category, { "category.acronym", "desc" }. , querydsl - Category , .

, , , . , (, "user.category.subcategory.propetry" ), , .

.

Answer 1

protoype Querydsl https://github.com/mysema/querydsl/issues/582

Querydsl,

public class OrderHelper {

private static final Pattern DOT = Pattern.compile("\\.");

public static PathBuilder<?> join(JPACommonQuery<?> query, PathBuilder<?> builder, Map<String, PathBuilder<?>> joins, String path) {
    PathBuilder<?> rv = joins.get(path);
    if (rv == null) {
        if (path.contains(".")) {
            String[] tokens = DOT.split(path);
            String[] parent = new String[tokens.length - 1];
            System.arraycopy(tokens, 0, parent, 0, tokens.length - 1);
            String parentKey = StringUtils.join(parent, ".");
            builder = join(query, builder, joins, parentKey);
            rv = new PathBuilder(Object.class, StringUtils.join(tokens, "_"));
            query.leftJoin((EntityPath)builder.get(tokens[tokens.length - 1]), rv);
        } else {
            rv = new PathBuilder(Object.class, path);
            query.leftJoin((EntityPath)builder.get(path), rv);
        }
        joins.put(path, rv);
    }
    return rv;
}

public static void orderBy(JPACommonQuery<?> query, EntityPath<?> entity, List<String> order) {
    PathBuilder<?> builder = new PathBuilder(entity.getType(), entity.getMetadata());
    Map<String, PathBuilder<?>> joins = Maps.newHashMap();

    for (String entry : order) {
        String[] tokens = DOT.split(entry);
        if (tokens.length > 1) {
            String[] parent = new String[tokens.length - 1];
            System.arraycopy(tokens, 0, parent, 0, tokens.length - 1);
            PathBuilder<?> parentAlias = join(query, builder, joins, StringUtils.join(parent, "."));
            query.orderBy(parentAlias.getString(tokens[tokens.length - 1]).asc());
        } else {
            query.orderBy(builder.getString(tokens[0]).asc());
        }
    }
}

}