org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.jpql.parser

Class ConstructorExpression

java.lang.Object

org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.jpql.parser.AbstractExpression

org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.jpql.parser.ConstructorExpression

All Implemented Interfaces:

Expression

public final class ConstructorExpression
extends AbstractExpression

In the SELECT clause a constructor may be used in the SELECT list to return one or more Java instances. The specified class is not required to be an entity or to be mapped to the database. The constructor name must be fully qualified.

BNF: constructor_expression ::= NEW constructor_name(constructor_item {, constructor_item}*)

Since:

2.3

Version:

2.5

Author:

Pascal Filion

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.jpql.parser.AbstractExpression

COMMA, DOT, DOUBLE_QUOTE, LEFT_CURLY_BRACKET, LEFT_PARENTHESIS, NOT_DEFINED, RIGHT_CURLY_BRACKET, RIGHT_PARENTHESIS, SINGLE_QUOTE, SPACE, UNDERSCORE

Fields inherited from interface org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.jpql.parser.Expression

ABS, ALL, AND, ANY, AS, AS_OF, ASC, AVG, BETWEEN, BIT_LENGTH, BOTH, CASE, CAST, CHAR_LENGTH, CHARACTER_LENGTH, CLASS, COALESCE, COLUMN, CONCAT, CONNECT_BY, COUNT, CURRENT_DATE, CURRENT_TIME, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, DELETE, DELETE_FROM, DESC, DIFFERENT, DISTINCT, DIVISION, ELSE, EMPTY, END, ENTRY, EQUAL, ESCAPE, EXCEPT, EXISTS, EXTRACT, FALSE, FETCH, FIRST, FROM, FUNC, FUNCTION, GREATER_THAN, GREATER_THAN_OR_EQUAL, GROUP_BY, HAVING, IN, INDEX, INNER, INNER_JOIN, INNER_JOIN_FETCH, INTERSECT, IS, IS_EMPTY, IS_NOT_EMPTY, IS_NOT_NULL, IS_NULL, JOIN, JOIN_FETCH, KEY, LAST, LEADING, LEFT, LEFT_JOIN, LEFT_JOIN_FETCH, LEFT_OUTER_JOIN, LEFT_OUTER_JOIN_FETCH, LENGTH, LIKE, LOCATE, LOWER, LOWER_THAN, LOWER_THAN_OR_EQUAL, MAX, MEMBER, MEMBER_OF, MIN, MINUS, MOD, MULTIPLICATION, NAMED_PARAMETER, NEW, NOT, NOT_BETWEEN, NOT_EQUAL, NOT_EXISTS, NOT_IN, NOT_LIKE, NOT_MEMBER, NOT_MEMBER_OF, NULL, NULLIF, NULLS, NULLS_FIRST, NULLS_LAST, OBJECT, OF, ON, OPERATOR, OR, ORDER_BY, ORDER_SIBLINGS_BY, OUTER, PLUS, POSITION, POSITIONAL_PARAMETER, QUOTE, REGEXP, SCN, SELECT, SET, SIZE, SOME, SQL, SQRT, START_WITH, SUBSTRING, SUM, TABLE, THEN, TIMESTAMP, TRAILING, TREAT, TRIM, TRUE, TYPE, UNION, UNKNOWN, UPDATE, UPPER, VALUE, WHEN, WHERE

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
ConstructorExpression(AbstractExpression parent) Creates a new ConstructorExpression.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	accept(ExpressionVisitor visitor) Visits this Expression by the given visitor.
void	acceptChildren(ExpressionVisitor visitor) Visits the children of this Expression.
CollectionExpression	buildCollectionExpression() Creates a new CollectionExpression that will wrap the single constructor item.
JPQLQueryBNF	findQueryBNF(Expression expression) Retrieves the JPQLQueryBNF that represents the fragment of this Expression that was used when parsing the given Expression.
java.lang.String	getActualIdentifier() Returns the actual NEW identifier found in the string representation of the JPQL query, which has the actual case that was used.
java.lang.String	getClassName() Returns the fully qualified class name that will be used to retrieve the constructor.
Expression	getConstructorItems() Returns the constructor items aggregated into a single expression and separated by commas or a single expression.
JPQLQueryBNF	getQueryBNF() Returns the BNF of this Expression.
boolean	hasConstructorItems() Determines whether the constructor items were parsed.
boolean	hasLeftParenthesis() Determines whether the open parenthesis was parsed or not.
boolean	hasRightParenthesis() Determines whether the close parenthesis was parsed or not.
boolean	hasSpaceAfterNew() Determines whether a whitespace was parsed after NEW.

Methods inherited from class org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.jpql.parser.AbstractExpression

children, getGrammar, getIdentifierVersion, getLength, getOffset, getParent, getQueryBNF, getRoot, isAncestor, orderedChildren, populatePosition, toActualText, toParsedText, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ConstructorExpression

public ConstructorExpression(AbstractExpression parent)

Creates a new ConstructorExpression.

Parameters:

parent - The parent of this expression

Method Detail

accept

public void accept(ExpressionVisitor visitor)

Visits this Expression by the given visitor.

Parameters:

visitor - The ExpressionVisitor to visit this object

acceptChildren

public void acceptChildren(ExpressionVisitor visitor)

Visits the children of this Expression. This method can be used to optimize traversing the children since a new list is not created every time Expression.children() is called.

This does not traverse the Expression sub-hierarchy, use a subclass of AbstractTraverseChildrenVisitor in order to traverse the entire sub-hierarchy.

Parameters:

visitor - The visitor to visit the children of this object.

buildCollectionExpression

public CollectionExpression buildCollectionExpression()

Creates a new CollectionExpression that will wrap the single constructor item.

Returns:

The single constructor item represented by a temporary collection

findQueryBNF

public JPQLQueryBNF findQueryBNF(Expression expression)

Retrieves the JPQLQueryBNF that represents the fragment of this Expression that was used when parsing the given Expression.

Specified by:

findQueryBNF in interface Expression

Overrides:

findQueryBNF in class AbstractExpression

Parameters:

expression - The Expression that is a descendant of this one

Returns:

The JPQLQueryBNF that was used to parse the given expression

getActualIdentifier

public java.lang.String getActualIdentifier()

Returns the actual NEW identifier found in the string representation of the JPQL query, which has the actual case that was used.

Returns:

The NEW identifier that was actually parsed

getClassName

public java.lang.String getClassName()

Returns the fully qualified class name that will be used to retrieve the constructor.

Returns:

The fully qualified class name or an empty string if it is not defined

getConstructorItems

public Expression getConstructorItems()

Returns the constructor items aggregated into a single expression and separated by commas or a single expression.

Returns:

The constructor item or items or an invalid or "null" expression

getQueryBNF

public JPQLQueryBNF getQueryBNF()

Returns the BNF of this Expression.

Returns:

The JPQLQueryBNF, which represents the grammar of this Expression

hasConstructorItems

public boolean hasConstructorItems()

Determines whether the constructor items were parsed.

Returns:

true if the query had at least one constructor item; false otherwise

hasLeftParenthesis

public boolean hasLeftParenthesis()

Determines whether the open parenthesis was parsed or not.

Returns:

true if the open parenthesis was present in the string version of the query; false otherwise

hasRightParenthesis

public boolean hasRightParenthesis()

Determines whether the close parenthesis was parsed or not.

Returns:

true if the close parenthesis was present in the string version of the query; false otherwise

hasSpaceAfterNew

public boolean hasSpaceAfterNew()

Determines whether a whitespace was parsed after NEW.

Returns:

true if there was a whitespace after NEW; false otherwise