What is the different between the validation rule exists and a custom rule that make a query to get the first record with the corresponding params in the database?
Are both the same or exists is faster and optimized?
If you go deeper into documentation you'll see what is called there.
You can find ValidatesAttributes trait that holds related methods for these rules (you can check the rest of code in Validation namespace). In code you can see it uses Exists class called in line 680.
So whether you use it as substring, array element or class it will eventually call and check against Exists class.
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I have an API endpoint to retrieve all users. There are 3 query parameters for searching/filtering the results as follows.
GET /users?name=test&age=23&area=abc
Now I want to introduce an option to ignore the case when searching for the name parameter. For example, the above API call should return even if the name equals Test or tesT.
What's the correct way of implementing this option? Adding another query parameter or is there any better way of implementing it?
In this specific case, an easier option could be to define the query parameter value as a regex expression, since regex expression itself allows us to define a string to be case insensitive / sensitive.
In other scenarios, another option would be to incorporate the specification (that the value needs to be case insensitive) into the query param value itself, like
http://localhost:3000?name=case_insensitive(test)
I would realize two new parameters for name, namely: nameIgnoreCase and nameCaseSensitive. In this case the user of the endpoint can and must decide. If this is well documented, the user gets an additional hint that this ‚question’ exists at all.
You can also continue to provide name as the default behavior, which will fall back to either nameIgnoreCase or nameCaseSensitive.
What I'm trying to achieve here is to load some fields from sub-entities.
For instance, let's suppose i want to load some features for the product list. In xml it's pretty clear:
<row-actions>
<entity-find-one entity-name="mantle.product.feature.ProductFeature" value-field="brandList">
<field-map field-name="productFeatureId" from="featureList.productFeatureId"/>
<field-map field-name="productFeatureTypeEnumId" from="featureList.productFeatureId" value="PftBrand"/>
</entity-find-one>
</row-actions>
Is there a way to do something similar in groovy, without iterating through the whole product list and add the desired fields manually?
Also, can somebody give me a short example with the concrete use of sqlFind(http://www.moqui.org/javadoc/org/moqui/entity/EntityFacade.html) ?
I tried to solve the issue i'm asking about using a join query but I couldn't figure out how the SQL query is supposed to look like.
a. The element 'entity-find-one' queries on primary key and returns a single map. You need to use the 'entity-find' element .
b. Yes, you can always drop down to groovy using the script tag. e.g. Just use ec.entity.find("mantle.product.feature.ProductFeature") or whatever you need in your groovy script.
c. In moqui, joined tables are handled by the 'view-entity' element and you can predefine your own (place in your 'entities' folder) or use the many existing ones that are provided in the framework. You don't need SQL.
EDIT - Sorry, you can also do it on the fly by using the EntityFind.makeEntityDynamicView() method.
Hope that helps.
I'm designing a RESTful API and I'm trying to work out how I could represent a predicate with OR an operator when querying for a resource.
For example if I had a resource Foo with a property Name, how would you search for all Foo resources with a name matching "Name1" OR "Name2"?
This is straight forward when it's an AND operator as I could do the following:
http://www.website.com/Foo?Name=Name1&Age=19
The other approach I've seen is to post the search in the body.
You will need to pick your own approach, but I can name few that seem to be pretty logical (although not without disadvantages):
Option 1.: Using | operator:
http://www.website.com/Foo?Name=Name1|Name2
Option 2.: Using modified query param to allow selection by one of the values from the set (list of possible comma-separated values):
http://www.website.com/Foo?Name_in=Name1,Name2
Option 3.: Using PHP-like notation to provide list instead of single string:
http://www.website.com/Foo?Name[]=Name1&Name[]=Name2
All of the above mentioned options have one huge advantage: they do not interfere with other query params.
But as I mentioned, pick your own approach and be consistent about it across your API.
Well one quick way to fixing that is to add an additional parameter that is identifying the relationship between your parameters wether they're an and or an or for example:
http://www.website.com/Foo?Name=Name1&Age=19&or=true
Or for much more complex queries just keep a single parameter and in it include your whole query by making up your own little query language and on the server side you would parse the whole string and extract the information and the statement.
In a custom ContentProvider I need to filter out some columns specified in the inputs. Given the text-oriented Android interfaces this is giving me a hard time.
For example the input on MyContentProvider.query() would effectively ask something like:
SELECT column_a, column_b FROM my_table WHERE column_a=1 AND column_b=red;
The problem is that at this particular MyContentProvider _column_b_ might not make any sense and would not be present in the table. Filtering the projection so that only relevant columns remain can be easily done since it's a String[]. However, filtering the String "where" (selection) and "selectionArgs" inputs for these columns is not trivial. If done properly it would become:
SELECT column_a FROM my_table WHERE column_a=1;
Otherwise one would get a SQLiteException "no such column".
So, is there any easy way to ignore or filter columns from such an sql statement or do I need to go and write some smart albeit very limited regexp parsing code for the selection part?
The reason I'm not getting the right inputs is because I maintain a custom ContentProvider as an interface to address, but I talk to multiple custom ContentProviders herein (in the background). One way or another, I would need to filter the selection somewhere.
Please note that I am not asking simply how to do a query or use the SELECT ... WHERE statement. However it concerns my implementation of the query() function.
Since you are extending your MyContentProvider with ContentProvider why don't you just overload the query() method?
Look at ContentProvider - Sharing Content using the ContentProvider for someone elses example on how to create a custom ContentProvider. You should have full control over what data you fetch from your SQLiteDatabase.
More importantly, look at the arguments provided to query(), as they contain the information you need to you in a way where you can dynamically build the query from what is passed into the method call.
Depending on if you can find a good query builder, you have an opportunity to build a small but powerful abstraction layer to build your queries, so that you minimize the amount of actual SQL that you write yourself.
Also, always remember to sanitize your inputs!
I need to return a constant from an HQL query in NHIbernate
SELECT new NDI.SomeQueryItem(user, account, " + someNumber + ")
FROM NDI.SomeObject object
I am trying for something like above. I've tried this:
SELECT new NDI.SomeQueryItem(user, account, :someNumber)
FROM NDI.SomeObject object
And then later:
.SetParameter("someNumber", 1).List<SomeQueryItem>();
But in the first case I get a 'Undefined alias or unknown mapping 1'. Which makes some sense since it probably thinks the 1 is an alias.
For the second I get a 'Undefined alias or unknown mapping :someNumber' which again makes some sense if it never set the parameter.
I have to believe there's some way to do this.
Please feel free to continue to believe there is some way to do this - but with HQL there isn't!
Why would you want to anyway? If you want to update the value this property to the value you specify, then do so after you've loaded the objects. Alternatively, if your result set doesn't quite match to your objects, you could alway use a SQL query (which you can still do via an NHibernate session). But the purpose of NHibernate is to map what's in your database onto objects, so specifying a manual override like this is quite rightly not allowed.
It sounds like there is a (small?) disconnect between your domain objects and your database model. What about creating a small "DTO" object to bridge this gap?
Have your query return a list of SomeQueryItemDTO (or whatever you want to call it) which, due to the naming, you know is not a true part of your domain. Then have some function to process the list and build a list of true SomeQueryItem objects by incorporating the data that is extraneous to the database.
If you're already using the Repository Pattern, this should be easier since all the ugly details are hidden inside of your repository.