Question

How would I do an entityload with its resultset being in random order?

So if I do entityload("modelName"), how Would set it’s sort order so that it is randomly different each time I call it?

Many Thanks

Answer 1

Well, the short answer is it is really difficult with entityLoad(). However, with HQL, it’s actually not too bad.

Most DB languages will have a random function. So, using the built in art table and an entity, you can use ormExecuteQuery to generate your results:

<cfscript>
hql = " SELECT DISTINCT artName
        FROM art
        ORDER BY RANDOM() ";

results = ormExecuteQuery(hql);

for( art in results ) {
    writeOutput(art & "<br/>");
}
</cfscript>

Because it won’t return any null records, you will get a random result set every time.

Hope this helps ^__^