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

java.lang.Object
  extended by org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.internal.jpql.parser.StringExpression
      extended by org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.internal.jpql.parser.AbstractExpression
          extended by org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.internal.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}*
Since:
2.3
Version:
2.3
Author:
Pascal Filion

Field Summary
private  boolean hasSpaceAfterOrderBy
          Determines whether a whitespace was parsed after ORDER BY.
private  AbstractExpression orderByItems
          The order by items.
 
Fields inherited from class org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.internal.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.internal.jpql.parser.Expression
ABS, ALL, AND, ANY, AS, ASC, AVG, BETWEEN, BIT_LENGTH, BOTH, CASE, CHAR_LENGTH, CHARACTER_LENGTH, CLASS, COALESCE, CONCAT, COUNT, CURRENT_DATE, CURRENT_TIME, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, DELETE, DELETE_FROM, DESC, DIFFERENT, DISTINCT, DIVISION, ELSE, EMPTY, END, ENTRY, EQUAL, ESCAPE, EXISTS, FALSE, FETCH, FROM, FUNC, GREATER_THAN, GREATER_THAN_OR_EQUAL, GROUP_BY, HAVING, IN, INDEX, INNER, INNER_JOIN, INNER_JOIN_FETCH, 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_EXISTS, NOT_IN, NOT_LIKE, NOT_MEMBER, NOT_MEMBER_OF, NULL, NULLIF, OBJECT, OF, OR, ORDER_BY, OUTER, PLUS, POSITION, POSITIONAL_PARAMETER, QUOTE, SELECT, SET, SIZE, SOME, SQRT, SUBSTRING, SUM, THEN, TRAILING, TREAT, TRIM, TRUE, TYPE, 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.
(package private)  void addChildrenTo(java.util.Collection<Expression> children)
          Adds the children of this Expression to the given collection.
(package private)  void addOrderedChildrenTo(java.util.List<StringExpression> children)
          Adds the StringExpressions representing this Expression.
 CollectionExpression buildCollectionExpression()
          Creates a new CollectionExpression that will wrap the single order by item.
 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.
(package private)  void parse(WordParser wordParser, boolean tolerant)
          Parses the query by starting at the current position, which is part of the given WordParser.
(package private)  void toParsedText(java.lang.StringBuilder writer, boolean includeVirtual)
          Generates a string representation of this Expression.
 
Methods inherited from class org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.internal.jpql.parser.AbstractExpression
buildExpressionFromFallingBack, buildNullExpression, buildStringExpression, buildStringExpression, buildUnknownExpression, children, expressionFactory, expressionFactoryForIdentifier, findQueryBNF, getChildren, getJPAVersion, getParent, getRoot, getText, handleAggregate, identifierRole, identifiers, identifiers, identifierVersion, isAncestor, isIdentifier, isNull, isParsingComplete, isTolerant, isUnknown, isVirtual, orderedChildren, parse, parseSingleExpression, populatePosition, queryBNF, readdLeadingSpaces, 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
 

Field Detail

hasSpaceAfterOrderBy

private boolean hasSpaceAfterOrderBy
Determines whether a whitespace was parsed after ORDER BY.

orderByItems

private AbstractExpression orderByItems
The order by items.
Constructor Detail

OrderByClause

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 visitor 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() or Expression.getChildren() is called.

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

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

addChildrenTo

void addChildrenTo(java.util.Collection<Expression> children)
Adds the children of this Expression to the given collection.
Overrides:
addChildrenTo in class AbstractExpression
Parameters:
children - The collection used to store the children

addOrderedChildrenTo

void addOrderedChildrenTo(java.util.List<StringExpression> children)
Adds the StringExpressions representing this Expression.
Overrides:
addOrderedChildrenTo in class AbstractExpression
Parameters:
children - The list used to store the string representation of this Expression

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

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.
Specified by:
getQueryBNF in class AbstractExpression
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

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

void toParsedText(java.lang.StringBuilder writer,
                  boolean includeVirtual)
Generates a string representation of this Expression.
Specified by:
toParsedText in class AbstractExpression
Parameters:
writer - The buffer used to append this Expression's string representation
includeVirtual - Determines whether to include any characters that are considered virtual, i.e. that was parsed when the query is incomplete and is needed for functionality like content assist

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