Build strictly-typed Criteria API
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Key: OPENJPA-1013
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENJPA-1013
Project: OpenJPA
Issue Type: New Feature
Reporter: Pinaki Poddar
Assignee: Pinaki Poddar
Fix For: 2.0.0-M1
JPA 2.0 has introduced specification for strictly-typed dynamic query
construction a.k.a Criteria API. The design challenge to support this feature
comes from the following
1. how to leverage existing OpenJPA query infrastructure?
2. the type-strictness is supported on the basis of a instantiated meta-model
-- this is new for OpenJPA query infrastructure. Should we introduce more
type-strictness in OpenJPA query infrastructure or not?
The design goals (currently)
1. select current design pattern rather than some arbitrary hack to bridge
existing OpenJPA query infrastructure and JPA 2.0 type-strict Criteria.
Possibly it is Adapter pattern.
2. Do not change OpenJPA query infrastructure with more type-strictness (it is
not type-free after all). Rather inject type information from the artifacts
that implement new Criteria API into OpenJPA query artifacts.
The implementation strategy:
1. Prototype the approach first.
2. Solidify a design that can be boiler plated (ok, almost) for numerous
supported query expression and clauses. Then delegate construction of these
parts.
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