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= How to use EclipseLink Pagination =
 
= How to use EclipseLink Pagination =

Revision as of 11:54, 3 July 2008

How to use EclipseLink Pagination

There are a variety of solution options for paging results in an EclipseLink JPA application. This how-to highlights various approaches with code samples of how they can be used.

FirstResult/MaxRows

The JPA Query object contains support for configuring the first and max rows to retrieve when executing a query. By default EclipseLink translated these values into the parameters provided to the JDBC statement. This then leaves it up the JDBC driver to handle the range of rows requested. In many JDBC implementations this provides little performance value as the database does not limit the rows returned but they are instead filtered on the JDBC client.

Database Specific SQL

EclipseLink's target database platform enables the generation of native SQL that can more optimally retrieve a set of rows.

Oracle ROWNUM

When the target platform is Oracle then ROWNUM is used in the generated SQL in addition to a hint to retrieve a page of results.

Query query = em.createQuery("SELECT e FROM Employee e ORDER BY e.lastName ASC, e.firstName ASC");
query.setFirstResult(5);
query.setMaxResults(5);
List<Employee> emps = query.getResultList();

Generates the SQL like:

SELECT * FROM (SELECT /*+ FIRST_ROWS */ a.*, ROWNUM rnum  FROM (
	SELECT  t0.EMP_ID AS EMP_ID1, t1.EMP_ID AS EMP_ID2, t0.F_NAME AS F_NAME3, t0.L_NAME AS L_NAME4, t0.START_TIME AS START_TIME5, 
		t0.END_TIME AS END_TIME6, t0.GENDER AS GENDER7, t1.SALARY AS SALARY8, t0.VERSION AS VERSION9, t0.START_DATE AS START_DATE10, 
		t0.END_DATE AS END_DATE11, t0.MANAGER_ID AS MANAGER_ID12, t0.ADDR_ID AS ADDR_ID13 
	   FROM EMPLOYEE t0, SALARY t1 
	   WHERE (t1.EMP_ID = t0.EMP_ID) ORDER BY t0.L_NAME ASC, t0.F_NAME ASC) a WHERE ROWNUM <= ?) WHERE rnum > ?
 
	bind => [10, 5]

Other Databases

At present there is not yet custom SQL support for other database vendors but this needs to be addressed and some bugs have been filed. If you require this support please post a message on the forum so that the work can be properly prioritized based on demand.

Chunking using PKs with IN

This involves performing a query on the database for all of the primary key values that match the criteria and then using these values to retrieve specific sets.

Query query = em.createQuery("SELECT e.id FROM Employee e ORDER BY e.lastName ASC, e.firstName ASC");
List<Integer> empIds = query.getResultList();
 
ReadAllQuery raq =  new ReadAllQuery(Employee.class);
ExpressionBuilder eb = raq.getExpressionBuilder();
raq.setSelectionCriteria(eb.get("id").in(empIds.subList(5, 10)));
List<Employee> emps = JpaHelper.createQuery(raq, em).getResultList();

The SQL generated for this query looks like:

SELECT t0.EMP_ID FROM EMPLOYEE t0, SALARY t1 WHERE (t1.EMP_ID = t0.EMP_ID) ORDER BY t0.L_NAME ASC, t0.F_NAME ASC
 
 
SELECT t0.EMP_ID, t1.EMP_ID, t0.F_NAME, t0.L_NAME, t0.START_TIME, t0.END_TIME, t0.GENDER, t1.SALARY, t0.VERSION, 
       t0.START_DATE, t0.END_DATE, t0.MANAGER_ID, t0.ADDR_ID FROM EMPLOYEE t0, SALARY t1 
    WHERE ((t0.EMP_ID IN (?, ?, ?, ?, ?)) AND (t1.EMP_ID = t0.EMP_ID))
 
    bind => [8, 1, 12, 3, 10]

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