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I am not able to find sample hql for doing join involving two tables.
table item has a (int) userid, which refers to user table. there is a name attribute in the user table.
I want to do a sorted collection query, in the ascending order of user.name.
the equivalent sql would be
SELECT * FROM item INNER JOIN user ON item.userid=user.userid ORDER BY user.`name`
please help me with the corresponding hql.
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by: 3lIOnsPosted on 2007-11-01 at 05:25:19ID: 20192184
HQL isnt SQL. You dont do 'joins', you navigate the object graph.
quals(?)"
I would suggest something like.... "FROM item i WHERE i.user.name = ?" which is like saying "get items where item.getUser().getName().e