[forge-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (FORGE-322) Support generation of @Entity "finder" methods

[ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-322?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.... ] Richard Kennard commented on FORGE-322: --------------------------------------- Done in new scaffolding implementation. Well, sort of. I don't really grok what these 'finder' methods are all about. What if an entity has 3 fields? Do I need: public Customer findByFirstname(...) { ... } public Customer findBySurname(...) { ... } public Customer findByAddress(...) { ... } public Customer findByFirstnameAndSurname(...) { ... } public Customer findByFirstnameAndSurnameAndAddress(...) { ... } public Customer findBySurnameAndAddress(...) { ... } public Customer findByFirstnameAndAddress(...) { ... } This seems unwieldy in Java? It works in, say, Ruby because they have 'method_missing'. But I don't like the idea of statically generating all these (when most will never be used). So instead I've implemented a simple Query By Example into the scaffolding using Criteria queries. Will that be sufficient? Please test! -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.jboss.org/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira