Question

is there a way to chain queries in the "Play!" framework instead of manually writing a query ?

Something like:

Model m = Model.where("name","Bill").where("gender","m").first();

I wonder because I recently switched from Codeigniter + dmz to grails then now to "Play!" and have been a bit disappointed by the queries chaining compared to the framework mentioned above

PS: I’m obviously not talking about the fetch() and the from() methods.

Answer 1

There is a JpqlSelect object with wich you can do

public static Model findBill() {
    JpqlSelect select = new JpqlSelect().from("Model").where("name=?").param("Bill").andWhere("gender=?").param("m");
    return find(select.toString(), select.getParams().toArray()).first();
}

This helper is far from being complete but it may suits your needs