[CAY-916] Ordering should be able to ignore paths with null elements

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0M3, 3.0
• Component/s: Core Library
• Assignee: Ari Maniatis
• Reporter: Ari Maniatis
• Created: 08/Nov/07 08:34
• Updated: 01/Jun/11 15:29
• Resolved: 08/Nov/07 08:52

Description

It would be useful if Cayenne could order records by a related entity's attribute and happily deal with null relations without throwing an exception. For example, to order paintings by artist.name will currently fail if one of the paintings has no artist.