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SELECT Queries

Overview

The SELECT query is constructed by calling the QueryDsl.from function. This is the basic form.

The following query corresponds to SQL to retrieve all rows from the ADDRESS table:

val query: Query<List<Address>> = QueryDsl.from(a)
/*
select t0_.ADDRESS_ID, t0_.STREET, t0_.VERSION from ADDRESS as t0_
*/

The query is assembled by calling several more functions as follows.

where

To specify a WHERE clause, call the where function:

val query: Query<List<Address>> = QueryDsl.from(a).where { a.addressId eq 1 }
/*
select t0_.ADDRESS_ID, t0_.STREET, t0_.VERSION from ADDRESS as t0_ where t0_.ADDRESS_ID = ?
*/

innerJoin

To perform an INNER JOIN, call the innerJoin function:

val query: Query<List<Address>> = QueryDsl.from(a).innerJoin(e) { a.addressId eq e.addressId }
/*
select t0_.ADDRESS_ID, t0_.STREET, t0_.VERSION from ADDRESS as t0_ inner join EMPLOYEE as t1_ on (t0_.ADDRESS_ID = t1_.ADDRESS_ID)
*/

leftJoin

To perform an LEFT OUTER JOIN, call the leftJoin function:

val query: Query<List<Address>> = QueryDsl.from(a).leftJoin(e) { a.addressId eq e.addressId }
/*
select t0_.ADDRESS_ID, t0_.STREET, t0_.VERSION from ADDRESS as t0_ left outer join EMPLOYEE as t1_ on (t0_.ADDRESS_ID = t1_.ADDRESS_ID)
*/

forUpdate

To specify a FOR UPDATE clause, call the forUpdate function:

val query: Query<List<Address>> = QueryDsl.from(a).where { a.addressId eq 1 }.forUpdate()
/*
select t0_.ADDRESS_ID, t0_.STREET, t0_.VERSION from ADDRESS as t0_ where t0_.ADDRESS_ID = ? for update
*/

In the lambda expression passed to the forUpdate function, you can specify lock options by calling functions such as nowait, skipLocked, and wait.

val query: Query<List<Address>> = QueryDsl.from(a).where { a.addressId eq 1 }.forUpdate { nowait() }
/*
select t0_.address_id, t0_.street, t0_.version from address as t0_ where t0_.address_id = ? for update nowait
*/

val query: Query<List<Address>> = QueryDsl.from(a).where { a.addressId eq 1 }.forUpdate { skipLocked() }
/*
select t0_.address_id, t0_.street, t0_.version from address as t0_ where t0_.address_id = ? for update skip locked
*/

val query: Query<List<Address>> = QueryDsl.from(a).where { a.addressId eq 1 }.forUpdate { wait(1) }
/*
select t0_.address_id, t0_.street, t0_.version from address as t0_ where t0_.address_id = ? for update wait 1
*/

Warning

If the Dialect you are using does not support the lock option UnsupportedOperationException will be thrown when executing the query.

The table to be locked can be specified by using the of function in a lambda expression passed to the forUpdate function.

val a = Meta.address
val e = Meta.employee
val address: Address = db.runQuery {
    QueryDsl.from(a)
        .innerJoin(e) { a.addressId eq e.addressId }
        .where { a.addressId eq 10 }
        .forUpdate {
            of(a)
            nowait()
        }
        .first()
}
/*
select t0_.address_id, t0_.street, t0_.version from address as t0_ inner join employee as t1_ on (t0_.address_id = t1_.address_id) where t0_.address_id = ? for update of t0_ nowait
*/

Warning

If the Dialect you are using does not support specifying the table to be locked UnsupportedOperationException will be thrown when executing the query.

orderBy

To specify an ORDER BY clause, call the orderBy function:

val query: Query<List<Adress>> = QueryDsl.from(a).orderBy(a.addressId)
/*
select t0_.ADDRESS_ID, t0_.STREET, t0_.VERSION from ADDRESS as t0_ order by t0_.ADDRESS_ID asc
*/

The default order is ascending. To specify descending order, call the desc function on the column before passing the column to the orderBy function. You can also explicitly call the asc function for ascending order.

Multiple columns can be specified in the orderBy function.

val query: Query<List<Adress>> = QueryDsl.from(a).orderBy(a.addressId.desc(), a.street.asc())
/*
select t0_.ADDRESS_ID, t0_.STREET, t0_.VERSION from ADDRESS as t0_ order by t0_.ADDRESS_ID desc, t0_.STREET asc
*/

To control the sort order of nulls, functions such as ascNullsFirst, ascNullsLast, descNullsFirst, and descNullsLast can also be called on the columns.

val query: Query<List<Employee>> = QueryDsl.from(e).orderBy(e.managerId.ascNullsFirst())
/*
select t0_.EMPLOYEE_ID, t0_.EMPLOYEE_NO, t0_.EMPLOYEE_NAME, t0_.MANAGER_ID, t0_.HIREDATE, t0_.SALARY, t0_.DEPARTMENT_ID, t0_.ADDRESS_ID, t0_.VERSION from EMPLOYEE as t0_ order by t0_.MANAGER_ID asc nulls first
 */

offset, limit

To extract a portion of rows from a specified position, call the offset and limit function:

val query: Query<List<Adress>> = QueryDsl.from(a).orderBy(a.addressId).offset(10).limit(3)
/*
select t0_.ADDRESS_ID, t0_.STREET, t0_.VERSION from ADDRESS as t0_ order by t0_.ADDRESS_ID asc offset ? rows fetch first ? rows only
*/

distinct

To specify a DISTINCT keyword, call the distinct function:

val query: Query<List<Department>> = QueryDsl.from(d).distinct().innerJoin(e) { d.departmentId eq e.departmentId }
/*
select distinct t0_.DEPARTMENT_ID, t0_.DEPARTMENT_NO, t0_.DEPARTMENT_NAME, t0_.LOCATION, t0_.VERSION from DEPARTMENT as t0_ inner join EMPLOYEE as t1_ on (t0_.DEPARTMENT_ID = t1_.DEPARTMENT_ID)
*/

select

To do a projection, call the select function.

Here is an example of projecting a single column:

val query: Query<List<String?>> = QueryDsl.from(a)
    .where {
        a.addressId inList listOf(1, 2)
    }
    .orderBy(a.addressId)
    .select(a.street)
/*
select t0_.STREET from ADDRESS as t0_ where t0_.ADDRESS_ID in (?, ?) order by t0_.ADDRESS_ID asc
*/

Here is an example of projecting two columns:

val query: Query<List<Pair<Int?, String?>>> = QueryDsl.from(a)
    .where {
        a.addressId inList listOf(1, 2)
    }
    .orderBy(a.addressId)
    .select(a.addressId, a.street)
/*
select t0_.ADDRESS_ID, t0_.STREET from ADDRESS as t0_ where t0_.ADDRESS_ID in (?, ?) order by t0_.ADDRESS_ID asc
*/

Here is an example of projecting three columns:

val query: Query<List<Triple<Int?, String?, Int?>>> = QueryDsl.from(a)
    .where {
        a.addressId inList listOf(1, 2)
    }
    .orderBy(a.addressId)
    .select(a.addressId, a.street, a.version)
/*
select t0_.ADDRESS_ID, t0_.STREET, t0_.VERSION from ADDRESS as t0_ where t0_.ADDRESS_ID in (?, ?) order by t0_.ADDRESS_ID asc
*/

Here is an example of projecting four or more columns:

val query: Query<List<Record>> = QueryDsl.from(a)
    .where {
        a.addressId inList listOf(1, 2)
    }
    .orderBy(a.addressId)
    .select(a.addressId, a.street, a.version, concat(a.street, " test"))
/*
select t0_.ADDRESS_ID, t0_.STREET, t0_.VERSION, (concat(t0_.STREET, ?)) from ADDRESS as t0_ where t0_.ADDRESS_ID in (?, ?) order by t0_.ADDRESS_ID asc
*/

val list: List<Record> = db.runQuery { query }
for (record: Record in list) {
  println(record[a.addressId])
  println(record[a.street])
  println(record[a.version])
  println(record[concat(a.street, " test")])
}

If more than three columns are projected, the resulting value will be included in a Record. You can retrieve the values from the Record using the columns specified in the select function as keys.

selectNotNull

To project a column that is certain not to be null, call the selectNotNull function.

Here is an example of projecting a single column:

val query: Query<List<String>> = QueryDsl.from(a)
    .where {
        a.addressId inList listOf(1, 2)
    }
    .orderBy(a.addressId)
    .selectNotNull(a.street)
/*
select t0_.STREET from ADDRESS as t0_ where t0_.ADDRESS_ID in (?, ?) order by t0_.ADDRESS_ID asc
*/

selectAsRecord

If you want to receive the result as a Record in a projection of less than four columns, call the selectAsRecord function instead of the select function.

val query: Query<List<Record> = QueryDsl.from(a)
    .where {
        a.addressId inList listOf(1, 2)
    }
    .orderBy(a.addressId)
    .selectAsRecord(a.street)
/*
select t0_.STREET from ADDRESS as t0_ where t0_.ADDRESS_ID in (?, ?) order by t0_.ADDRESS_ID asc
*/

having

To specify a HAVING clause, call the having function:

val query: Query<List<Pair<Int?, Long?>>> = QueryDsl.from(e)
    .having {
        count(e.employeeId) greaterEq 4L
    }
    .orderBy(e.departmentId)
    .select(e.departmentId, count(e.employeeId))
/*
select t0_.DEPARTMENT_ID, count(t0_.EMPLOYEE_ID) from EMPLOYEE as t0_ group by t0_.DEPARTMENT_ID having count(t0_.EMPLOYEE_ID) >= ? order by t0_.DEPARTMENT_ID asc
*/

Note

If there is no call to the groupBy function, the GROUP BY clause is inferred and generated from the arguments passed to the select function.

groupBy

To specify a GROUP BY clause, call the groupBy function.

val query: Query<List<Pair<Int?, Long?>>> = QueryDsl.from(e)
    .groupBy(e.departmentId)
    .having {
        count(e.employeeId) greaterEq 4L
    }
    .orderBy(e.departmentId)
    .select(e.departmentId, count(e.employeeId))
/*
select t0_.DEPARTMENT_ID, count(t0_.EMPLOYEE_ID) from EMPLOYEE as t0_ group by t0_.DEPARTMENT_ID having count(t0_.EMPLOYEE_ID) >= ? order by t0_.DEPARTMENT_ID asc
*/

union

To specify a UNION operation, combine queries with the union function:

val q1: Query<List<Pair<Int?, String?>>> = QueryDsl.from(e).where { e.employeeId eq 1 }
    .select(e.employeeId alias "ID", e.employeeName alias "NAME")
val q2: Query<List<Pair<Int?, String?>>> = QueryDsl.from(a).where { a.addressId eq 2 }
  .select(a.addressId alias "ID", a.street alias "NAME")
val q3: Query<List<Pair<Int?, String?>>> = QueryDsl.from(d).where { d.departmentId eq 3 }
  .select(d.departmentId alias "ID", d.departmentName alias "NAME")
val query: Query<List<Pair<Int?, String?>>> = (q1 union q2 union q3).orderBy("ID", desc("NAME"))
/*
(select t0_.EMPLOYEE_ID as "ID", t0_.EMPLOYEE_NAME as "NAME" from EMPLOYEE as t0_ where t0_.EMPLOYEE_ID = ?) union (select t1_.ADDRESS_ID as "ID", t1_.STREET as "NAME" from ADDRESS as t1_ where t1_.ADDRESS_ID = ?) union (select t2_.DEPARTMENT_ID as "ID", t2_.DEPARTMENT_NAME as "NAME" from DEPARTMENT as t2_ where t2_.DEPARTMENT_ID = ?) order by "ID" asc, "NAME" desc
*/

Note

In addition to the union function, unionAll, except, and intersect functions are available as set operators. However, if the Dialect you are using does not support them, UnsupportedOperationException will be thrown when executing the query.

first

To indicate that the query returns first row, call the first function at the end:

val query: Query<Address> = QueryDsl.from(a).where { a.addressId eq 1 }.first()
/*
select t0_.ADDRESS_ID, t0_.STREET, t0_.VERSION from ADDRESS as t0_ where t0_.ADDRESS_ID = ?
*/

firstOrNull

To indicate that the query returns first row or null, call the firstOrNull function at the end:

val query: Query<Address?> = QueryDsl.from(a).where { a.addressId eq 1 }.firstOrNull()
/*
select t0_.ADDRESS_ID, t0_.STREET, t0_.VERSION from ADDRESS as t0_ where t0_.ADDRESS_ID = ?
*/

The firstOrNull function returns null if the query result is empty.

single

To indicate that the query returns absolutely single row, call the single function at the end:

val query: Query<Address> = QueryDsl.from(a).where { a.addressId eq 1 }.single()
/*
select t0_.ADDRESS_ID, t0_.STREET, t0_.VERSION from ADDRESS as t0_ where t0_.ADDRESS_ID = ?
*/

singleOrNull

To indicate that the query returns single row or null, call the singleOrNull function at the end:

val query: Query<Address?> = QueryDsl.from(a).where { a.addressId eq 1 }.singleOrNull()
/*
select t0_.ADDRESS_ID, t0_.STREET, t0_.VERSION from ADDRESS as t0_ where t0_.ADDRESS_ID = ?
*/

The singleOrNull function returns null if the query result is empty or has more than one row.

collect

To process the result set as kotlinx.coroutines.flow.Flow, call the collect function at the end:

val query: Query<Unit> = QueryDsl.from(a).collect { flow: Flow<Address> -> flow.collect { println(it) } }
/*
select t0_.ADDRESS_ID, t0_.STREET, t0_.VERSION from ADDRESS as t0_
*/

Note

With the collect function, all rows are processed as they are read one by one, rather than being processed after all rows have been read into memory. Thus, memory usage can be improved.

include

To include columns from the joined table in the SELECT clause, call the include function:

val a = Meta.address
val e = Meta.employee
val d = Meta.department

val query: Query<EntityStore> = QueryDsl.from(a)
  .innerJoin(e) {
    a.addressId eq e.addressId
  }.innerJoin(d) {
    e.departmentId eq d.departmentId
  }.include(e, d)
/*
select t0_.ADDRESS_ID, t0_.STREET, t0_.VERSION, t1_.EMPLOYEE_ID, t1_.EMPLOYEE_NO, t1_.EMPLOYEE_NAME, t1_.MANAGER_ID, t1_.HIREDATE, t1_.SALARY, t1_.DEPARTMENT_ID, t1_.ADDRESS_ID, t1_.VERSION, t2_.DEPARTMENT_ID, t2_.DEPARTMENT_NO, t2_.DEPARTMENT_NAME, t2_.LOCATION, t2_.VERSION from ADDRESS as t0_ inner join EMPLOYEE as t1_ on (t0_.ADDRESS_ID = t1_.ADDRESS_ID) inner join DEPARTMENT as t2_ on (t1_.DEPARTMENT_ID = t2_.DEPARTMENT_ID)
*/

When the above query is executed, the return value is a org.komapper.core.dsl.query.EntityStore instance.

You can retrieve a list of entities and a map of entity relationships from the EntityStore instance as follows:

val store: EntityStore = db.runQuery { query }

val addresses: Set<Address> = store[a]
val employees: Set<Employee> = store[e]
val departments: Set<Department> = store[d]

val departmentEmployees: Map<Department, Set<Employee>> = store.oneToMany(d, e)
val employeeDepartment: Map<Employee, Department?> = store.oneToOne(e, d)
val employeeAddress: Map<Employee, Address?> = store.oneToOne(e, a)

You can obtain a map whose key is the ID of the entity:

val departmentIdEmployees: Map<Int, Set<Employee>> = store.oneToManyById(d, e)

includeAll

To include columns from all joined tables in the SELECT clause, call the includeAll function:

val a = Meta.address
val e = Meta.employee
val d = Meta.department

val query: Query<EntityStore> = QueryDsl.from(a)
  .innerJoin(e) {
    a.addressId eq e.addressId
  }.innerJoin(d) {
    e.departmentId eq d.departmentId
  }.includeAll()
/*
select t0_.EMPLOYEE_ID, t0_.EMPLOYEE_NO, t0_.EMPLOYEE_NAME, t0_.MANAGER_ID, t0_.HIREDATE, t0_.SALARY, t0_.DEPARTMENT_ID, t0_.ADDRESS_ID, t0_.VERSION, t1_.ADDRESS_ID, t1_.STREET, t1_.VERSION, t2_.DEPARTMENT_ID, t2_.DEPARTMENT_NO, t2_.DEPARTMENT_NAME, t2_.LOCATION, t2_.VERSION from EMPLOYEE as t0_ inner join ADDRESS as t1_ on (t0_.ADDRESS_ID = t1_.ADDRESS_ID) inner join DEPARTMENT as t2_ on (t0_.DEPARTMENT_ID = t2_.DEPARTMENT_ID)
*/

The above code is equivalent to the example shown in include.

options

To customize the behavior of the query, call the options function. The options function accept a lambda expression whose parameter represents default options. Call the copy function on the parameter to change its properties.

val query: Query<List<Address>> = QueryDsl.from(a).options {
    it.copy(
      fetchSize = 100,
      queryTimeoutSeconds = 5
    )
}

The options that can be specified are as follows:

allowMissingWhereClause: Whether an empty WHERE clause is allowed or not. Default is true.
escapeSequence: Escape sequence specified for the LIKE predicate. The default is null to indicate the use of Dialect values.
fetchSize: Default is null to indicate that the driver value should be used.
maxRows: Default is null to indicate use of the driver’s value.
queryTimeoutSeconds: Query timeout in seconds. Default is null to indicate that the driver value should be used.
suppressLogging: Whether to suppress SQL log output. Default is false.

Properties explicitly set here will be used in preference to properties with the same name that exist in executionOptions.

Last modified May 23, 2022: Update select.md (aa8df78)