Details
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Bug
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Status: Closed
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Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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2.5.2
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None
Description
Two of the OUTER JOIN tests appears to expect incorrect results:
- org.apache.jackrabbit.test.api.query.qom.EquiJoinConditionTest#testRightOuterJoin1
- org.apache.jackrabbit.test.api.query.qom.EquiJoinConditionTest#testLeftOuterJoin2
Both tests are set up the same way: two nodes are created:
/testroot/workarea/node1
{jcr:primaryType=nt:unstructured, prop1=yikqysrwur}/testroot/workarea/node1/node2
{jcr:primaryType=nt:unstructured, prop1=yikqysrwur, prop2=yikqysrwur, jcr:mixinTypes=[mix:referenceable], jcr:uuid=c9118bb2-922e-4612-acd7-7152105f5684}A single string is randomly generated and used for the values for "prop1" and "prop2", and only the second node is made to be "mix:referenceable".
The "testRightOuterJoin1" test runs this query:
SELECT * FROM [nt:unstructured] AS left
RIGHT OUTER JOIN [nt:unstructured] AS right
ON left.prop1 = right.prop2
WHERE ISDESCENDANTNODE(right,'/testroot/workarea')
The left side of the join has at least two tuples (one for "node1", one for "node2", and other nodes which do not have a 'prop1' value), and column of interest is the "prop1" column. Thus the left side tuples (or the parts we care about for the join) look like:
[ node1, yikqysrwur ]
[ node2, yikqysrwur ]
[ …, <null> ]
The right side of the join has only two tuples ("node1" and "node2") because of the "ISDESCENDANTNODE" criteria, and the only column of interest is the "prop2" column. Thus, the right side tuples (or the parts we care about for the join) look like:
[ node1, <null> ]
[ node2, yikqysrwur ]
When we perform a RIGHT OUTER JOIN, we have to *include all the tuples on the right* even if they don't match a value on the left tuples. Thus, "node1" must be included in the results, and because it has a null value for the "prop2" column will not match any of the tuples on the left (since a null value is not equal to another null value in the case of join criteria). So the result set should contain these combinations of nodes:
[ null, node1 ]
[ node1, node2 ]
[ node2, node2 ]
However, the test expects the following result:
[ node1, node2 ]
[ node2, node2 ]
This is incorrect to me, because it is missing the [node1, null] tuple that was on the right side of the join.
