On Mar 13, 2008, at 4:48 PM, shaun wrote:

Chuck Hill wrote:
On Mar 13, 2008, at 10:47 AM, Carter Wojcik wrote:
Hi All -

My users want to have the ability to search on a
Number attribute, but use String qualifiers such as
Contains ('*value*'), Begins With ('value*'), Ends
With ('*value').

I have a table named part that contains a primaryKey
named part_id (Number and exposed) and a String called
descriptor.

Is there a way to create an EOQualifier that
replicates the SQL in the example below?

Example: Select all parts with a part_id that begins
with 3.
select * from part where to_char(part_id) like '3%';
Maybe...
Add a new attribute called partIDAsString
Set the column to part_id
Set the datatype as string
Mark it as read only
Set the read format to to_char(%P)
Then make a qualifier on partIDAsString.

Interesting approach. I hope it works.

Apparently, it does.  :-)  It has been a few years since I used that.


The other day I was trying to do exactly the same thing as descibed by Carter.

I used the Wonder RegExQualifier class as a base for my own EOQualifier implementation and created the sql as required calling to_char(id) it was all going well up until it actually had to do the fetch, thats when JDBCColumn in the JDBCAdaptor classes got in the way and spoiled the fun; it checks that the object type provided matches the models type but '%1001%' is NAN so it throws an Exception. I'm not sure if there is somethign i can do to get around this or not?


I am pretty sure that you can, but writing qualifiers is tricky and can lead to rapid loss of hair. The modelling approach is far easier.

Chuck


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