[CAY-1588] Add support for functions in ORDER BY statement to EJBQL parser

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.1
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.3
• Component/s: Core Library, Database integration
• Labels: ejbql, order
• Environment: Ubuntu Natty, OpenJDK U26, Tomcat 6.0.26
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Marek Šabo
• Created: 12/Jul/11 14:02
• Updated: 12/Jul/11 14:03

Description

Currently Cayenne lacks support for functions in ORDER BY statement in it's EJBQL implementation. This is request for extending grammar and allowing expressions like ... ORDER BY ABS(code) which as it seems are part of JPA spec now.

Link to primal discussion: http://cayenne.195.n3.nabble.com/EJBQL-parser-td3159392.html