org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.jpql.parser
Class OrderByClause

java.lang.Object
  org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.jpql.parser.AbstractExpression
      org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.jpql.parser.OrderByClause

All Implemented Interfaces:

Expression

public final class OrderByClause
extends AbstractExpression

The ORDER BY clause allows the objects or values that are returned by the query to be ordered.

BNF: orderby_clause ::= ORDER BY orderby_item {, orderby_item}*

Version:

2.4

Author:

Pascal Filion

Since:

2.3

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, ASC, AVG, BETWEEN, BIT_LENGTH, BOTH, CASE, CAST, CHAR_LENGTH, CHARACTER_LENGTH, CLASS, COALESCE, COLUMN, CONCAT, 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, 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, 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_FIRST, NULLS_LAST, OBJECT, OF, ON, OPERATOR, OR, ORDER_BY, OUTER, PLUS, POSITION, POSITIONAL_PARAMETER, QUOTE, REGEXP, SELECT, SET, SIZE, SOME, SQL, SQRT, SUBSTRING, SUM, TABLE, THEN, TRAILING, TREAT, TRIM, TRUE, TYPE, UNION, UNKNOWN, UPDATE, UPPER, VALUE, WHEN, WHERE

Constructor Summary

OrderByClause(AbstractExpression parent)
Creates a new OrderByClause.

Method Summary

void	accept(ExpressionVisitor visitor) Visits this Expression by the given visitor.
void	acceptChildren(ExpressionVisitor visitor) Visits the children of this Expression.
protected void	addChildrenTo(java.util.Collection<Expression> children) Adds the children of this AbstractExpression to the given collection.
protected void	addOrderedChildrenTo(java.util.List<Expression> children) Adds the children of this AbstractExpression to the given list.
CollectionExpression	buildCollectionExpression() Creates a new CollectionExpression that will wrap the single order by item.
java.lang.String	getActualIdentifier() Returns the actual ORDER BY found in the string representation of the JPQL query, which has the actual case that was used.
Expression	getOrderByItems() Returns the Expression representing the list of items to order.
JPQLQueryBNF	getQueryBNF() Returns the BNF of this Expression.
boolean	hasOrderByItems() Determines whether the list of items to order was parsed.
boolean	hasSpaceAfterOrderBy() Determines whether a whitespace was parsed after ORDER BY.
protected void	parse(WordParser wordParser, boolean tolerant) Parses the query by starting at the current position, which is part of the given WordParser.
protected void	toParsedText(java.lang.StringBuilder writer, boolean actual) Generates a string representation of this Expression, including its children, if it has any.

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

acceptUnknownVisitor, acceptUnknownVisitor, buildExpressionFromFallingBack, buildNullExpression, buildStringExpression, buildStringExpression, buildUnknownExpression, calculatePosition, children, findFallBackExpressionFactory, findQueryBNF, getExpressionFactory, getExpressionRegistry, getGrammar, getIdentifierVersion, getJPAVersion, getLength, getOffset, getParent, getQueryBNF, getRoot, getText, handleAggregate, handleCollection, isAncestor, isIdentifier, isNull, isParsingComplete, isTolerant, isUnknown, isVirtual, orderedChildren, parse, parseUsingExpressionFactory, populatePosition, rebuildActualText, rebuildParsedText, setParent, setText, shouldParseWithFactoryFirst, shouldSkipLiteral, toActualText, toParsedText, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

OrderByClause

public OrderByClause(AbstractExpression parent)

Creates a new OrderByClause.

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.

addChildrenTo

protected void addChildrenTo(java.util.Collection<Expression> children)

Adds the children of this AbstractExpression to the given collection.

Overrides:

addChildrenTo in class AbstractExpression

Parameters:

children - The collection used to store the children

addOrderedChildrenTo

protected void addOrderedChildrenTo(java.util.List<Expression> children)

Adds the children of this AbstractExpression to the given list.

Overrides:

addOrderedChildrenTo in class AbstractExpression

Parameters:

children - The list used to store the string representation of this AbstractExpression

buildCollectionExpression

public CollectionExpression buildCollectionExpression()

Creates a new CollectionExpression that will wrap the single order by item.

Returns:

The single order by item represented by a temporary collection

getActualIdentifier

public java.lang.String getActualIdentifier()

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

Returns:

The ORDER BY identifier that was actually parsed

getOrderByItems

public Expression getOrderByItems()

Returns the Expression representing the list of items to order.

Returns:

The expression representing the list of items to order

getQueryBNF

public JPQLQueryBNF getQueryBNF()

Returns the BNF of this Expression.

Returns:

The JPQLQueryBNF, which represents the grammar of this Expression

hasOrderByItems

public boolean hasOrderByItems()

Determines whether the list of items to order was parsed.

Returns:

true the list of items to order was parsed; false otherwise

hasSpaceAfterOrderBy

public boolean hasSpaceAfterOrderBy()

Determines whether a whitespace was parsed after ORDER BY.

Returns:

true if a whitespace was parsed after ORDER BY; false otherwise

parse

protected void parse(WordParser wordParser,
                     boolean tolerant)

Parses the query by starting at the current position, which is part of the given WordParser.

Specified by:

parse in class AbstractExpression

Parameters:

wordParser - The text to parse based on the current position of the cursor

tolerant - Determines whether the parsing system should be tolerant, meaning if it should try to parse invalid or incomplete queries

toParsedText

protected void toParsedText(java.lang.StringBuilder writer,
                            boolean actual)

Generates a string representation of this Expression, including its children, if it has any.

Specified by:

toParsedText in class AbstractExpression

Parameters:

writer - The buffer used to append this Expression's string representation

actual - Determines whether the string representation should represent what was parsed, i.e. include any "virtual" whitespace (such as ending whitespace) and the actual case of the JPQL identifiers