Question

Let’s say I have the following tables

my_profile_data
-------------
integer: my_profile_data_id
integer: profile_id
integer: profile_data_type_id
date: date_changed
string: value

my_profile
-------------
integer: profile_id
string: name

profile_data_type
-------------
integer: profile_data_type_id
string: name

I want to get the most recent profile information for each profile data type. In plain SQL this would look something like:

select mpd.profile_id, mpd.profile_data_type_id, mpd.value, max(mpd.date_changed) 
from my_profile_data mpd, my_profile mp 
where mpd.profile_id = mp.profile_id and mp.name='The Profile I Want' 
group by mpd.profile_data_type_id

I’ve tried different variants of the following JPQL query, but can’t get it to work.

SELECT mpd FROM MyProfileData mpd LEFT JOIN
     (SELECT mpd.profileId profileId, MAX(mpd.dateChanged) FROM MyProfileData mpd
     LEFT JOIN mp.profile
     WHERE mp.name = :name
     GROUP BY mpd.profileDataTypeId) recent
ON (rp.profileid = recent.profileId)

Is this query doable in JPA?

I’m using EclipseLink as my JPA provider.

The innermost exception I get when I try to run this is

Caused by: NoViableAltException(81!=[506:7: (n= joinAssociationPathExpression ( AS )? i= IDENT | t= FETCH n= joinAssociationPathExpression )])
    at org.eclipse.persistence.internal.jpa.parsing.jpql.antlr.JPQLParser.join(JPQLParser.java:3669)
    ... 73 more

Answer 1

I gave up on trying to create this query in JPA and wrote a native query instead