[jira] [Created] (METAMODEL-107) Less confusing method names when building where clauses

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Kasper Sørensen created METAMODEL-107:
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             Summary: Less confusing method names when building where clauses
                 Key: METAMODEL-107
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/METAMODEL-107
             Project: Apache MetaModel
          Issue Type: Wish
            Reporter: Kasper Sørensen
            Priority: Minor


I've noticed a few times in our team that we keep making this mistake:

We have two columns that we want to use for a filter where they should for 
instance be equal. Kinda like:

{code}
SELECT ... FROM ... WHERE col1 = col2
{code}

So in MetaModel we might code this like this:

{code}
.query()... .where("col1").eq("col2") ...
{code}

The trouble is that then "col2" will be evaluated as a literal string, so the 
created query will rather be like

{code}
SELECT ...: FROM ... WHERE col1 = "col2"
{code}

Obviously that doesn't work. Our solution it to traverse the schema model and 
set the where clause using Column objects instead of strings. But that's 
actually not always very convenient. So it would be nice if we had methods to 
specify a column name in the query builder. Maybe just with something a la 
"eqCol(...)":

{code}
.query()... .where("col1").eqCol("col2") ...
{code}



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