Yeah, I was about to comment along those lines as well.
For chained operations, readability of the code needs to be a primary focus.
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Michael Gentry <mgen...@masslight.net> wrote:
> I'd avoid true/false for that purpose. We had the same thing in
> orderings before I changed it to an enum. I'd specify it in the
> method name or use an enum that makes sense when reading it.
>
> mrg
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Andrus Adamchik <and...@objectstyle.org>
> wrote:
>>> So are you thinking something like:
>>> Artist.ARTIST_NAME.contains("Van")?
>>
>> yep.
>>
>>> Also, what about
>>> case-insensitive?
>>
>> Probably as a second true/false argument? I started to dislike the look of
>> "likeIgnoreCase" recently :)
>>
>> Property.contains(string);
>> Property.contains(string, true);
>> Property.contains(string, false);
>>
>>
>> Andrus
>>
>>
>>> On Nov 21, 2014, at 5:33 PM, Michael Gentry <mgen...@masslight.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> I 'like' this.
>>>
>>> So are you thinking something like:
>>> Artist.ARTIST_NAME.contains("Van")? Also, what about
>>> case-insensitive?
>>>
>>> mrg
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 7:19 AM, Andrus Adamchik <and...@objectstyle.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Another API idea that I just had while analyzing boilerplate code of the
>>>> client Cayenne apps. An argument to Property.like(..) (or second argument
>>>> to ExpressionFactory.likeExp(..)) requires a full pattern to match
>>>> against. So people would often write their own utility code to wrap a
>>>> String in "%" signs. Cayenne can easily take care of this via the
>>>> following methods:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Property.contains(string);
>>>> // same as Property.like("%" + string + "%");
>>>>
>>>> Property.startsWith(string);
>>>> // same as Property.like(string + "%");
>>>>
>>>> Property.endsWith(string);
>>>> // same as Property.like("%" + string);
>>>>
>>>> In addition to saving the user from String concatenation, these new
>>>> methods can do proper symbol escaping, making "like" much safer to use.
>>>>
>>>> Andrus
>>>
>>
