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Michael Bouschen updated JDO-758:
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Affects Version/s: JDO 3.1
Fix Version/s: JDO 3.2
Component/s: specification
> What can a subquery return?
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> Key: JDO-758
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JDO-758
> Project: JDO
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: specification
> Affects Versions: JDO 3.1
> Reporter: Tilmann Zäschke
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: JDO 3.2
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> The current spec specifies that subqueries should support ordering and
> grouping, suggesting that subqueries should be able to return collections of
> results.
> However, a Java {{Collection}} (others are not supported in JDOQL) only
> support {{size()}}, {{isEmpty()}} and {{contains()}}. These three functions
> all return scalars, furthermore, these could all be implemented easily with
> an additional term inside the subquery. Since the current reference
> implementation does not support all these functions, it should be considered
> whether subqueries should at all be required to return collections of objects.
> A similar argument could be made for returning persistent objects from
> subqueries (suggested by required support for 'unique'). Persistent objects
> cannot be used in the parent query, except for accessing their identity, or
> possibly casting them to a persistent type and access a field.
> Can anyone think of a usecase or other argument why subqueries should be able
> to return anything else than scalars/boolean (and possibly single persistent
> objects)?
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