Is it possible to do a nested select in JPA QL?
How would I write the following SQL statement in JPA QL?
select * from preferences p left outer join (select * from preferencesdisplay where user_id='XXXX') display on ap.pref_id=display.pref_id;
The JPA entity PREFERENCES has a OneToMany relationship to PREFERENCESDISPLAY. I want to get all the PREFERENCES whether or not there is a PREFERENCESDISPLAY reference.
In hibernate you can use "with":
select ... from Preferences p left join p.displays d with d.user.id = 100
But in JPA I have never seen such possibilities.
Does that SQL even work?
It would help if you showed your Entities, however if you have everything correctly mapped it should be this easy:
select p from Preferences p left join p.preferencesDisplays pd with pd.userId =XXXX
or if with isn't supported by TopLink
select p from Preferences p left join p.preferencesDisplays pd
where pd IS NULL or pd.userId = XXXX