[jira] [Created] (CAY-1971) User-frendly variations of Property.like(..)

["Andrus Adamchik (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Andrus Adamchik created CAY-1971:
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             Summary: User-frendly variations of Property.like(..)
                 Key: CAY-1971
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAY-1971
             Project: Cayenne
          Issue Type: Improvement
            Reporter: Andrus Adamchik
            Assignee: Andrus Adamchik
             Fix For: 4.0.M2


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An idea that I had while analyzing boilerplate code of the client Cayenne apps. An argument to Property.like(..) (or second argument to ExpressionFactory.likeExp(..)) requires a full pattern to match against. So people would often write their own utility code to wrap a String in "%" signs. Cayenne can easily take care of this via a few extra methods. In addition these new methods can do proper symbol escaping, making "like" much safer to use. 

Property.contains(string); // same as Property.like("%" + string + "%");
Property.containsIgnoreCase(string);

Property.startsWith(string); // same as Property.like(string + "%");
Property.startsWithIgnoreCase(string);

Property.endsWith(string); // same as Property.like("%" + string);
Property.endsWithIgnoreCase(string);




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