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Bug 346117

Summary: query on isNull(many-to-one mapped attribute) does not work
Product: z_Archived Reporter: Björn Clemens <bjoern.clemens>
Component: EclipselinkAssignee: Project Inbox <eclipselink.orm-inbox>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: major    
Priority: P2 CC: pbloigu, tom.ware
Version: unspecified   
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testcase as maven project to reproduce the bug none

Description Björn Clemens CLA 2011-05-17 11:58:26 EDT
Build Identifier: 2.2.0.v20110202-r8913

environment: optional - many to one-relation between two tables
task: select all elements on many-table what are not mapped to target table (ref_id column contains null value)

the following code returns no result, even if matching values are available in table

CriteriaBuilder builder = entityManager.getCriteriaBuilder();
CriteriaQuery<AnyMappedObject> criteriaQuery = builder.createQuery(AnyMappedObject.class);
Root<AnyMappedObject> entity_ = criteriaQuery.from(AnyMappedObject.class);
criteriaQuery.where(entity_.get("target").isNull());

TypedQuery<AnyMappedObject> entityQuery = entityManager.createQuery(criteriaQuery);
List<AnyMappedObject> results = entityQuery.getResultList();

Case 1: bidirectional mapping via join-column/inverse-join-column 

generated sql: SELECT t1.ID, t1.anyAttribute FROM TargetTable  t0, SourceTable  t1 WHERE (NOT EXISTS (SELECT t4.ID FROM TargetTable t5, SourceTable t4 WHERE (t5.targetId = t1.ID))  AND ((t0.targetId  = t1.ID) AND (t0.ID = t0.ID)))

expected sql: SELECT t0.anyAttribute FROM AnyMappedObjectTable t0 WHERE  t0.targetId is null

case 2: unidirectional mapping

generated sql: SELECT t1.ID, t1.anyAttribute FROM TargetTable t0, SourceTable t1 WHERE ((t1.targetId IS NULL) AND (t0.ID = t1.targetId))

expected sql: SELECT t1.ID, t1.anyAttribute FROM SourceTable t1 WHERE t1.targetId is null

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.see details
Comment 1 Tom Ware CLA 2011-05-20 08:48:11 EDT
Please post examples of the mappings.
Comment 2 Björn Clemens CLA 2011-05-25 12:09:12 EDT
Created attachment 196569 [details]
testcase as maven project to reproduce the bug

added testcase (simple mapping without mapping table ) that reproduces the bug
Comment 3 Tom Ware CLA 2011-05-31 09:41:25 EDT
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Comment 4 Panu Bloigu CLA 2015-06-12 02:44:05 EDT
I would like to see this fixed as this is a) quite fundamental and b) subtle. 

As a workaround one can use an explicit left join, though, and then call isNull and provide the join as the parameter.
Comment 5 Eclipse Webmaster CLA 2022-06-09 10:08:56 EDT
The Eclipselink project has moved to Github: https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/eclipselink