This is from an old Cayenne 1.2 project, so the syntax may be a bit
different now.
Basically, you use an outer join and then noMatchExp() against null.
The joined record will have null for all values if the relationship is
empty.
The plus "+" indicates an outer join at this point.
ExpressionFactory.noMatchExp(AuthorizationDocument.DEPENDENT_PERMIT_DOCUMENT_PROPERTY
+ "+"
+ "." + PermitDocument.AUTHORIZATION_DOCUMENT_PROPERTY,
null);
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Ramiro Aparicio
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> An easy question, I want to know all elements of table A that does NOT have
> a relationship with table B
> A->B 1:N so A id is stored on B
>
> In plain SQL I am using:
> "select * from A where idA not in (select idA from B);"
> It is not really nice, but works
>
> But using a Expressions seems a lot harder, I don't find anything like that,
> sure we have notInExp but I don't see a way to set the path to the entity it
> self, and having to extract all idA to use it with notInDbExp seems very
> ugly (if idA is exposed on A).
>
> I know I can go and just use plain SQL, just for knowledge I would want to
> now if something as "simple" is impossible to be queried using Expressions
>
> Ramiro Aparicio
