I think the abstract class is the only solution as of now.. however the
idea Stein suggested looked just like it.. there should have been such a
feature.. It seems more with the philosophy of isolation of database from
a java programmer.. Has no one faced a similiar problem.. I think it is
time we added the feature..
Fasih
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Stein M. Hugubakken wrote:
> Fasihullah Askiri wrote:
> >
> >>SELECT o FROM dot.com.User o where firstName like $1 or lastName like $1
> >>order by lastName, firstName
> >
> > as in the base class i dont know the fields in the derived class...
> >
> > one way is to obviously implement the function as an abstract function and
> > implement the query in the derived class.. but is there any other
> > alternative???
> >
>
> What about an abstract method to get the required search-fields?
>
> A nice feature by Castor could be something like this:
>
> mapping:
> <class name="dot.com.User"...>
> <fields...>
> </fields>
> <search name="search1" order="desc">
> <field name="fieldName1">
> <field name="fieldName2">
> </search>
> </class>
>
> code:
> Search search = db.search("dot.com.User", "search1", args);
>
> Stein
>
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