I am starting to learn JPA, and have implemented an example with JPA query, based on the following native SQL that I tested in SQL Server:
SELECT f.StudentID, f.Name, f.Age, f.Class1, f.Class2
FROM Student f
LEFT OUTER JOIN ClassTbl s ON s.ClassID = f.Class1 OR s.ClassID = f.Class2
WHERE s.ClassName = 'abc'
From the above SQL I have constructed the following JPQL query:
SELECT f FROM Student f LEFT JOIN f.Class1 s;
As you can see, I still lack the condition OR s.ClassID = f.Class2
from my original query. My question is, how can I put it into my JPQL?
Write this;
SELECT f from Student f LEFT JOIN f.classTbls s WHERE s.ClassName = 'abc'
Because your Student entity has One To Many relationship with ClassTbl entity.
If you have entities A and B without any relation between them and there is strictly 0 or 1 B for each A, you could do:
select a, (select b from B b where b.joinProperty = a.joinProperty) from A a
This would give you an Object[]{a,b} for a single result or List<Object[]{a,b}> for multiple results.
Normally the ON clause comes from the mapping's join columns, but the JPA 2.1 draft allows for additional conditions in a new ON clause.
See,
http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseLink/UserGuide/JPA/Basic_JPA_Development/Querying/JPQL#ON