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Subject: Re: Is there a canonical method of invoking aggregate functions
From: Andrus Adamchik <andrus@objectstyle.org>
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Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 15:02:33 -0400
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Hi Hugi,

This was a big enough hole in the API, that I felt it needed fixing. I =
just added support for the "path+" EJBQL syntax to Cayenne per =
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAY-2027 . So you can build =
Cayenne from master and use it right away.=20

Andrus


> On Sep 12, 2015, at 9:03 AM, Hugi Thordarson <hugi@karlmenn.is> wrote:
>=20
> Hi all.
>=20
> Since converting Expressions that use outer joins to EJBQL doesn=E2=80=99=
t work in Cayenne, I find myself now using somewhat kludgy methods to =
invoke aggregate methods (for example to retrieve the count of records =
that an expression will yield).
>=20
> Does anyone have a good solution or is there a standard way to do =
this?
>=20
> Cheers,
> - hugi
>=20
> // Hugi Thordarson
> // http://www.loftfar.is/ <http://www.loftfar.is/>
> // s. 895-6688