My understanding is that you should have to think in terms of SQL but in terms of the object model, which is the whole point. I'll have a look over the documentation, but I'd be very disappointed if it was the case that you'd have to do this. From what I've seen so far the api would only be more complex than it needs if you're still thinking in SQL rather than Objects.
My money is on all this being possible without breaking any design patterns (e.g. resorting to sql). I'll drop another posting when I've taken a look and can be more helpful.
Cheers mark
On Tuesday, Jul 1, 2003, at 09:34 Europe/London, Sam Le Berrigaud wrote:
Hello,
I am also quite new to Torque. But what I think I would is not use Criteria to do so, I would rather use the executeQuery method in which you can write your own SQL with no problem. Maybe you could also try to write your own criteria as shown in criteria how-to in the section simplifying Criteria.
Regards,
SaM
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Suppose I have an Oracle table called A and a table called A_TR (TR stands for translation) for multi-language support. These two tables contain following columns respectively:
A.ID (pk), A.NAME
A_TR.ID(pk, fk to A.ID), A_TR.LOCALE (pk), A_TR.NAME
If I want to get A_TR.NAME if it is available, othwise use A.NAME. Using SQL, I can get it pretty easily:
select nvl(A_TR.name,A.name) as name from A, A_TR where A.id=A_TR.id(+) and lower(A_TR.locale(+)) = lower('en-us')
But it seems in Torque this will be awefully complex if not impossible (unless I resort back to brute force SQL). The complication arises from:
1. Creteria doesn't support outer-join
2. The peer class doesn't support ad hoc SELECT clause. I can only get the columns within a table. Combining columns in two tables with Oracle function such as NVL is almost impossible.
Since I am new to Torque, I would like confirmation if these indeed are limitation of Torque. Is there any get-around that doesn't need multiple db hit (don't take query cache into account)?
Thanks
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