I'm using Parse.com and I am running a query that obtains objects in a many-to-many relational table (call this table 'RelationTable'). Obviously this table has links to objects in another table (let's call this SubObject). Now, from this query, I need to filter results by searching on a field contained within the SubObject (call this SearchField).
Any ideas on how to do this? I already have the includeKey and am trying the '.' operator in SQL to access a field in the subclass, but it's not working. Below is the code I have so far:
ParseQuery<ParseObject> query = ParseQuery.getQuery("RelationTable);
query.include("subObject"); //subObject is field name where SubObject is stored. Note CAPS difference
query.whereContains("SubObject.SearchField", searchString);
You can create a subquery on the user object, and use whereMatchesQuery on your RelationTable query :
ParseQuery<ParseObject> query = ParseQuery.getQuery("RelationTable);
query.include("subObject");
ParseQuery<ParseObject> innerQuery = ParseQuery.getQuery("SubObject");
innerQuery.whereContains("SearchField", searchString);
query.whereMatchesQuery("subObject", innerQuery);
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When querying one table using the doctrine query builder a partial select can be written like this:
$queryBuilder = $this->createQueryBuilder('person');
$queryBuilder->addSelect('partial person.{id, name}');
How can one write a partial select be written for a left joined table? I tried something like this, but can't figure out the correct syntax:
$queryBuilder = $this->createQueryBuilder('person');
$queryBuilder->join('person.address');
$queryBuilder->addSelect('partial person.{id, name} person.address.city'); // ???
My goal would be to select only parts of the Person and the Address object when executing the query to be more memory efficient.
Your syntax is off for your join operation. You have to give an alias when using join. From there, you can just use the same syntax to query your partial Address object:
// In a method of PersonRepository
$qb = $this->createQueryBuilder('person')
->select(['partial person.{id, name}', 'partial address.{id, city}'])
->join('person.address', 'address');
Notice that I added id to the fields retrieved for Address. If you don't, Doctrine will give you the following error:
Error: The partial field selection of class Path\To\Entity\Address must contain the identifier
As a side note, you said you wanted to write this select for a left joined table. If you want to perform a LEFT JOIN, you need to use leftJoin instead of join (the signature of both methods is the same).
I have a model Form for table forms. There is a column called guid which can be null, or contain some sort of grouping random hash.
I need to select all forms that have column guid either null or unique in current search. In other words, for repeating guid values in current search I select only first occurence of every guid hash.
I tried:
$results = App\Form::where(... some where clauses .. ).groupBy('guid')
and it's almost ok, but for all rows, where guid == NULL it groups them and selects only one (and I need all of them).
How can I get the unique or null rows either by building proper SQL query or filtering the results in PHP?
Note: I need my $results to be an Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Builder instance
EDIT:
I fount out that SQL version of query I need is:
SELECT * FROM `forms` WHERE .... GROUP BY IFNULL(guid, id)
What would be equivallent query for Laravel's database query builder?
UPDATE: Using DB::raw
App\Form::where(... conditions ...)
->groupBy(DB::raw("IFNULL('guid', 'id')"));
Or the another way could be:
You can also use whereNotNull, whereNull & at last merge both the collections using merge() like this:
First get the results where guid is grouped by (excluding null guid's here):
$unique_guid_without_null = App\Form::whereNotNull('guid')->groupBy('guid')->get();
Now, get the results where guid is null:
$all_guid_with_null = App\Form::whereNull('guid')->get();
and at last merge both the collections using merge() method:
$filtered_collection = $unique_guid_without_null->merge($all_guid_with_null);
Hope this helps!
For your edited question, you can use raw() as;
->groupBy(DB::raw("IFNULL('guid', 'id')"))
So your final query will be as:
$results = App\Form::where(... some where clauses .. )
->groupBy(DB::raw("IFNULL('guid', 'id')"));
By above query, your $results will be an instance of Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Builder.
I need to write a query in such way that the array(collection) is contain only sub query objects.
Suppose we have the two tables as follows:
TableA:
objectId, name
TableB:
objectId, names[array of name: parse pointer collection]
Here is my code which I tried:
// sub query
var subQuery = new Parse.Query('TableA');
subQuery.doesNotExist('name');
// main query
var query = new Parse.Query('TableB');
query.exists("names");
//query.containsAll("names", subQuery); // this means names should contain all subQuery, so this is not use full for me.
query.matchesQuery("names", subQuery);
This code is running fine, but this is not working as I want and also not showing the any error.
It seems that you don't need a subquery per se, but rather to first query your list of names, and then use that in your main query. What you seem to be looking for is: containedIn( key, values ) , as in:
query.containedIn("name", namesFromFirstQuery)
I am using Northwind Customers Table where I fill the dataset and get the datatable.
I am trying to use dynamic linq and want to select columnName dynamically
var qry = MyDataTable.AsEnumerable().AsQueryable().Select("new(Country)");
Right now I have hard coded country but even then I get this error
No property or field 'Country' exists in type 'datarow'
I would like to eventually change this query to take the column name dynamically.
Please help!!! thanks.
The important hint is here (in bold):
No property or field 'Country' exists
in type 'datarow'
The extension method AsEnumerable of the DataTable class returns an IEnumerable<T> where T has the type DataRow. Now the Select method of Dynamic LINQ wants to work with this type DataRow which hasn't a property Country of course.
You could try this instead:
var qry = MyDataTable.AsEnumerable().AsQueryable()
.Select("new(it[\"Country\"] as CountryAlias)");
it now represents a variable of type DataRow and you can use methods of this type and perhaps also the indexer in my example above. (Dynamic LINQ supports accessing array elements by an integer index, but I am not sure though if accessing an indexer with a string key will work.)
I've used Slauma's answer and it worked. In addition i was doing OrderBy with dynamic linq maybe this will help to someone. I'll just drop the code here.
string dynamicLinqText = $"it[\"{sortColumnName}\"] {sortDirection}"; //it["PERSON_NAME"] asc
result = result.AsEnumerable().OrderBy(dynamicLinqText).CopyToDataTable();
I have created a linq query that returns my required data, I now have a new requirement and need to add an extra field into the returned results. My entity contains an ID field that I am trying to map against another table without to much luck.
This is what I have so far.
Dictionary<int, string> itemDescriptions = new Dictionary<int, string>();
foreach (var item in ItemDetails)
{
itemDescriptions.Add(item.ItemID, item.ItemDescription);
}
DB.TestDatabase db = new DB.TestDatabase(Common.GetOSConnectionString());
List<Transaction> transactionDetails = (from t db.Transactions
where t.CardID == CardID.ToString()
select new Transaction
{
ItemTypeID= t.ItemTypeID,
TransactionAmount = t.TransactionAmount,
ItemDescription = itemDescriptions.Select(r=>r.Key==itemTypeID).ToString()
}).ToList();
What I am trying to do is key the value from the dictonary where the key = itemTypeID
I am getting this error.
Local sequence cannot be used in LINQ to SQL implementations of query operators except the Contains operator.
What do I need to modify?
This is a duplicate of this question. The problem you're having is because you're trying to match an in-memory collection (itemDescriptions) with a DB table. Because of the way LINQ2SQL works it's trying to do this in the DB which is not possible.
There are essentially three options (unless I'm missing something)
1) refactor your query so you pass a simple primitive object to the query that can be passed accross to the DB (only good if itemDescriptions is a small set)
2) In your query use:
from t db.Transactions.ToList()
...
3) Get back the objects you need as you're doing, then populate ItemDescription in a second step.
Bear in mind that the second option will force LINQ to evaluate the query and return all transactions to your code that will then be operated on in memory. If the transaction table is large this will not be quick!