Hi John, I am developing against 4.2 right now. I will have to take a closer look at the Property methods again—it may be so obvious that I missed it.
Thanks for the help, though. At least I know where to look. Regards, F -- Faizel Dakri > On Sep 10, 2020, at 05:10 PM, John Huss <[email protected]> wrote: > > The generated Property instances in the model classes support this out of > the box, but maybe you are using an older version of Cayenne? > > On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 4:00 PM Faizel Dakri <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Is there a facility in Cayenne to create an expression that would compare >> a property of one object against another property (maybe via a relationship >> path rooted at the same object) rather than against a scalar value? >> >> I’m trying to port over some old EOF code and we used to have a >> EOKeyComparisonQualifier which would allow you to create a qualifier to >> compare a property’s value with that of another property (or property key >> path). >> >> For example, given a model consisting of employees, where each employee >> can have a relationship to a manager and each employee has a salary >> property, you could use a key comparison qualifier to find those employees >> that are making more than their manager: >> >> salary > manager.salary >> >> I’ve looked in ExpressionFactory and through some of the source, but to me >> it looks like all comparison nodes in an expression operate on a key and a >> scalar. Am I missing something? >> >> Thanks for any help or pointers, >> >> F >> >> -- >> Faizel Dakri >> >> >>
