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

java.lang.Object
  extended by org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.jpql.parser.AbstractExpression
      extended by 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 }

Version:
2.5
Author:
Pascal Filion
Since:
2.5

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
ConnectByClause(AbstractExpression parent)
          Creates a new ConnectByClause.
 
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.
 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.
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, 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

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.

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

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

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

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