Also, what is the name of your relationship from Person to PersName?
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Reinout van Schouwen<rein...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a table Person and a table PersName. I've created a relation
> between PersName and Person so that each PersName links to a Person. In
> other words, a Person may have multiple PersNames.
>
> Is it possible to do a query like this:
>
> // find all Persons whose family name starts with A
> final Expression queryTemplate = Expression.fromString("persname.familyName
> like '$name%'");
> Map<String,String> queryParams = Maps.newHashMapWithExpectedSize(1);
> queryParams.put("name", "A"); // TODO "A" from parameter
> Expression qualifier = queryTemplate.expWithParameters(queryParams);
> SelectQuery query = new SelectQuery(Person.class, qualifier);
> query.addOrdering("familyName", true);
>
> When I try this, I get:
> org.apache.cayenne.exp.ExpressionException: [v.2.0.4 October 12 2007] Can't
> resolve path component: [Person.persname].
>
> It is true that the table Person has no field 'persname' but if I read
> http://cayenne.apache.org/doc20/building-expressions.html correctly,
> Cayenne should automatically determine all the join information.
>
> How should I build the key path expression?
>
> regards,
>
> --
> Reinout van Schouwen
>
>
