I 'like' this.
So are you thinking something like:
Artist.ARTIST_NAME.contains("Van")? Also, what about
case-insensitive?
mrg
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 7:19 AM, Andrus Adamchik <and...@objectstyle.org> wrote:
> Another API idea that I just had while analyzing boilerplate code of the
> client Cayenne apps. An argument to Property.like(..) (or second argument to
> ExpressionFactory.likeExp(..)) requires a full pattern to match against. So
> people would often write their own utility code to wrap a String in "%"
> signs. Cayenne can easily take care of this via the following methods:
>
>
> Property.contains(string);
> // same as Property.like("%" + string + "%");
>
> Property.startsWith(string);
> // same as Property.like(string + "%");
>
> Property.endsWith(string);
> // same as Property.like("%" + string);
>
> In addition to saving the user from String concatenation, these new methods
> can do proper symbol escaping, making "like" much safer to use.
>
> Andrus
