How to Customize GROUP_CONCAT Separator in Sequelize? - sql

Question

Assuming I have this seqeulize code bellow
groupAccess.findAll({
attributes: [
'id',
'group_name',
'description',
[sequelize.fn('GROUP_CONCAT', sequelize.col('module_name')), 'module_name']
],
group: ['group_name']
})
The result of it's query will be like
id | group_name | description | module_name
----+--------------+---------------+---------------------------
1 | A | desc A | mod_1,mod_2,mod_3
4 | B | desc B | mod_4,mod_5,mod_6,mod_7
8 | C | desc C | mod_8,mod_9,mod_10
11 | D | desc D | mod_11,mod_12
and sequelize.js res will be like:
[
{
id: "1",
group_name: "A",
description: "desc A",
module_name: "mod_1,mod_2,mod_3"
},
{
id: "4",
group_name: "B",
description: "desc B",
module_name: "mod_4,mod_5,mod_6,mod_7"
},
{
id: "8",
group_name: "C",
description: "desc C",
module_name: "mod_8,mod_9,mod_10"
},
{
id: "11",
group_name: "D",
description: "desc D",
module_name: "mod_11,mod_12"
},
]
Problem: How to change the commas (separators) to another symbol as the separator (in e.g: dash-arrow -> symbol as the separator) IN SEQUELIZE?
Expected query:
id | group_name | description | module_name
----+--------------+---------------+---------------------------
1 | A | desc A | mod_1->mod_2->mod_3
4 | B | desc B | mod_4->mod_5->mod_6->mod_7
8 | C | desc C | mod_8->mod_9->mod_10
11 | D | desc D | mod_11->mod_12
Expected res of sequelize.js:
[
{
id: "1",
group_name: "A",
description: "desc A",
module_name: "mod_1->mod_2->mod_3"
},
{
id: "4",
group_name: "B",
description: "desc B",
module_name: "mod_4->mod_5->mod_6->mod_7"
},
{
id: "8",
group_name: "C",
description: "desc C",
module_name: "mod_8->mod_9->mod_10"
},
{
id: "11",
group_name: "D",
description: "desc D",
module_name: "mod_11->mod_12"
},
]

Answer 1

Found this on GitHub (https://github.com/sequelize/sequelize/issues/3390#issuecomment-84649641); not 100% sure if this works (since I'm not familiar with sequelize), but you can try:
groupAccess.findAll({
attributes: [
'id',
'group_name',
'description',
[sequelize.fn('GROUP_CONCAT', sequelize.literal(`module_name SEPARATOR '->'`)), 'module_name']
],
group: ['group_name']
})