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Reputation: 287

How to do a paged QueryDSL query with Spring JPA?

QueryDSL defines an OrderSpecifier interface and an instance for that can be easily obtained for any field by calling asc() or desc(). The QueryDslPredicateExecutor interface of Spring Data JPA even has a findAll() method which takes OrderSpecifiers as parameters.

org.springframework.data.domain.PageRequest however doesn't know anything about QueryDSL and it has its own way for defining query sort order, namely org.springframework.data.domain.Sort. It can contain a number of org.springframework.data.domain.Sort.Orders which are a lot like OrderSpecifiers, except that they are not type safe etc.

So, if I want to make paged query which uses sorting, is there really no way of using QueryDSL for defining that?

Upvotes: 7

Views: 7418

Answers (4)

SergeyB
SergeyB

Reputation: 9848

Here is a much simpler way to construct a Sort object using QueryDSL:

new QSort(user.manager.firstname.asc())

Then you can use it in a PageRequest like so:

new PageRequest(0, 10, new QSort(user.manager.firstname.asc()))

Upvotes: 9

Michael Wiles
Michael Wiles

Reputation: 21186

I know it's been a while and I'm not sure this was available at the time of the OP but there is now a QPageRequest object introduced which allows for sorting via QueryDSL to be added to spring data jpa Query DSL...

Upvotes: 9

EpicPandaForce
EpicPandaForce

Reputation: 81539

The getExpression() method has been removed, and I had expressions akin to QPost.post.period.periCode which needed a traversal, and without the complete name of expression I couldn't do anything about it, so now I made a method that gathers period.periCode and works perfectly on QPost.post.

private String resolveOrderPath(Path<?> path) {
    StringBuilder stringBuffer = new StringBuilder(path.getMetadata().getName());
    path = path.getMetadata().getParent();
    while(!path.getMetadata().isRoot()) {
        stringBuffer.insert(0, path.getMetadata().getName() + ".");
        path = path.getMetadata().getParent();
    }
    return stringBuffer.toString();
}

Path<?> path = QPost.post.period.periCode;
String propertyPath = resolveOrderPath(path);
Sort sort = new Sort("asc".equals(sSortDir0) ? Sort.Direction.ASC : Sort.Direction.DESC, propertyPath);

Upvotes: 1

Timo Westk&#228;mper
Timo Westk&#228;mper

Reputation: 22180

It should work like this if you can't find another way

private Sort sortBy(Path<?> path) {
    return new Sort(Sort.Direction.ASC, path.getMetadata().getExpression().toString());
}

Upvotes: 6

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