org.eobjects.metamodel.query
Class OrderByItem

java.lang.Object
  org.eobjects.metamodel.util.BaseObject
      org.eobjects.metamodel.query.OrderByItem

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, Cloneable, QueryItem

public class OrderByItem
extends BaseObject
implements QueryItem, Cloneable

Represents an ORDER BY item. An OrderByItem sorts the resulting DataSet according to a SelectItem that may or may not be a part of the query already.

See Also:

OrderByClause, SelectItem, Serialized Form

Nested Class Summary

static class

OrderByItem.Direction

Constructor Summary

OrderByItem(SelectItem selectItem)
Creates an ascending OrderByItem

OrderByItem(SelectItem selectItem, boolean ascending)
Deprecated. user OrderByItem(SelectItem, Direction) instead

OrderByItem(SelectItem selectItem, OrderByItem.Direction direction)
Creates an OrderByItem

Method Summary

protected OrderByItem	clone()
protected void	decorateIdentity(List<Object> identifiers) Subclasses should implement this method and add all fields to the list that are to be included in equals(...) and hashCode() evaluation
OrderByItem.Direction	getDirection()
Query	getQuery()
SelectItem	getSelectItem()
boolean	isAscending()
boolean	isDescending()
OrderByItem	setDirection(OrderByItem.Direction direction)
OrderByItem	setQuery(Query query)
String	toSql()
String	toSql(boolean includeSchemaInColumnPaths)
String	toString()

Methods inherited from class org.eobjects.metamodel.util.BaseObject

classEquals, equals, hashCode

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

OrderByItem

public OrderByItem(SelectItem selectItem,
                   OrderByItem.Direction direction)

Creates an OrderByItem

Parameters:

selectItem - the select item to order

direction - the direction to order the select item

OrderByItem

@Deprecated
public OrderByItem(SelectItem selectItem,
                              boolean ascending)

Deprecated. user OrderByItem(SelectItem, Direction) instead

Creates an OrderByItem

Parameters:

selectItem -

ascending -

OrderByItem

public OrderByItem(SelectItem selectItem)

Creates an ascending OrderByItem

Parameters:

selectItem -

Method Detail

toSql

public String toSql(boolean includeSchemaInColumnPaths)

Specified by:

toSql in interface QueryItem

toSql

public String toSql()

Specified by:

toSql in interface QueryItem

isAscending

public boolean isAscending()

isDescending

public boolean isDescending()

getDirection

public OrderByItem.Direction getDirection()

setDirection

public OrderByItem setDirection(OrderByItem.Direction direction)

getSelectItem

public SelectItem getSelectItem()

getQuery

public Query getQuery()

Specified by:

getQuery in interface QueryItem

setQuery

public OrderByItem setQuery(Query query)

Specified by:

setQuery in interface QueryItem

clone

protected OrderByItem clone()

Overrides:

clone in class Object

decorateIdentity

protected void decorateIdentity(List<Object> identifiers)

Description copied from class: BaseObject

Subclasses should implement this method and add all fields to the list that are to be included in equals(...) and hashCode() evaluation

Specified by:

decorateIdentity in class BaseObject

toString

public String toString()

Specified by:

toString in interface QueryItem

Overrides:

toString in class BaseObject