liquidform - Language Integrated QUeries For ORM

Posted Sun, 27/09/2009 - 09:34 by ittayd
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http://code.google.com/p/liquidform/ is a libray that adds a DSL on top of JPA. In particular, the DSL allows for queries to use domain objects in a typesafe manner. for example:



List people = em.createQuery(

"SELECT FROM Person p WHERE p.surname LIKE 'Smith%'")

.getResultList();

 

becomes (notice the use of p.getSurname() for type safety on Person methods)

 

Person p = LiquidForm.use(Person.class, "p");

List people2 = em.createQuery(

select(p).from(Person.class).as(p).where(like(p.getSurname(), "Smith%")).toString()).getResultList();