Please use user ML for that kind of questions, Jacques
----- Original Message ----- From: "natx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <dev@ofbiz.apache.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 8:50 PM Subject: using GenericDelegator: what is the MAX() functional equivalent? > > Hey everybody. I hope this is an appropriate question for this particular > branch of the forum. > > Basically, I have a few Ofbiz entities set up which point to tables in a > MySQL database. These tables all have a numeric field called "id" which acts > as the primary key (established using the <prim-key field="id"/> construct). > I'd like to have these id fields populated with a numeric sequence generator > which insures uniqueness. > > I'm pretty new to Ofbiz, so the first thing I did was look for a way to do > this manually by using the equivalent to the MAX function in SQL to find the > next number in the sequence. However, I wasn't able to find any use of the > MAX function, unless I wanted to create a View Entity (which seems > unnecessary). So my first question is: is there any equivalent to the MAX > function when using the GenericDelegator to run database queries? > > Note: I just discovered the existence of the getNextSeqId() method in > GenericDelegator. Since there is an entity called "SequenceValueItem" in our > entity model, I'm assuming that this will serve my purpose. But my first > question still stands. Thanks! > > -- Nate > -- > View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/using-GenericDelegator%3A-what-is-the-MAX%28%29-functional-equivalent--tf3229256.html#a8972100 > Sent from the OFBiz - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
