On 23.02.11 15:12, "Seidel. Robert" <robert.sei...@aeb.de> wrote: >I'm missing a public Value[] getValues(String columnName) method at the >row interface. To get the values from a multivalue property I have to go >over the node, get the property and cann then access the values. > >Is this work as intended or were the multi value properties simply not >considered when designing the Row interface?
IIUC, the row interface was designed for a simpler SQL-like result, which only knows single-values (simpler because you don't have to "worry" about the Node interface). It basically just wraps Nodes in a simpler way. This makes sense for Xpath and SQL-1 queries, where you'd typically use the getNodes() NodeIterator with Xpath and getRows() with SQL. Thus one could think that getNodes() is "superior", however, practically, there are some virtual results, such as the jackrabbit-specific "rep:excerpt", which you will only find in the row-based results. Also, with JCR 2.0 and SQL-2, you can have multiple subresults based on the selectors, and you can only read them out via the Rows (getNode(selectorName)). Hence for full feature completeness you'd get the rows, and get the underlying Node via getNode()/getNode(selector), if your queries require access to both. HTH, Alex -- Alexander Klimetschek Developer // Adobe (Day) // Berlin - Basel
