org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.jpql.parser

Class ConnectByClause

java.lang.Object

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

org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.jpql.parser.ConnectByClause

All Implemented Interfaces:

Expression

public final class ConnectByClause
extends AbstractExpression

The CONNECT BY clause allows selecting rows in a hierarchical order using the hierarchical query clause. CONNECT BY specifies the relationship between parent rows and child rows of the hierarchy.

BNF: connectby_clause ::= CONNECT BY { single_valued_object_path_expression | collection_valued_path_expression }

Since:

2.5

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
ConnectByClause(AbstractExpression parent) Creates a new ConnectByClause.

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.
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 CONNECT BY identifier found in the string representation of the JPQL query, which has the actual case that was used.
Expression	getExpression() Returns the Expression representing the relationship expression.
JPQLQueryBNF	getQueryBNF() Returns the BNF of this Expression.
boolean	hasExpression() Determines whether the relationship expression was parsed.
boolean	hasSpaceAfterConnectBy() Determines whether a whitespace was found after CONNECT BY.

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

ConnectByClause

public ConnectByClause(AbstractExpression parent)

Creates a new ConnectByClause.

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.

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

Returns:

The CONNECT BY identifier that was actually parsed, or an empty string if it was not parsed

getExpression

public Expression getExpression()

Returns the Expression representing the relationship expression.

Returns:

The expression representing the relationship expression

getQueryBNF

public JPQLQueryBNF getQueryBNF()

Returns the BNF of this Expression.

Returns:

The JPQLQueryBNF, which represents the grammar of this Expression

hasExpression

public boolean hasExpression()

Determines whether the relationship expression was parsed.

Returns:

true if the relationship expression was parsed; false if it was not parsed

hasSpaceAfterConnectBy

public boolean hasSpaceAfterConnectBy()

Determines whether a whitespace was found after CONNECT BY.

Returns:

true if there was a whitespace after CONNECT BY; false otherwise