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package org.hibernate.dialect.function;

import java.util.List;

import org.hibernate.QueryException;
import org.hibernate.engine.spi.Mapping;
import org.hibernate.engine.spi.SessionFactoryImplementor;
import org.hibernate.type.Type;

Emulation of coalesce() on Oracle, using multiple nvl() calls
Author:Gavin King
/** * Emulation of <tt>coalesce()</tt> on Oracle, using multiple <tt>nvl()</tt> calls * * @author Gavin King */
public class NvlFunction implements SQLFunction { @Override public boolean hasArguments() { return true; } @Override public boolean hasParenthesesIfNoArguments() { return true; } @Override public Type getReturnType(Type argumentType, Mapping mapping) throws QueryException { return argumentType; } @Override @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") public String render(Type argumentType, List args, SessionFactoryImplementor factory) throws QueryException { final int lastIndex = args.size()-1; final Object last = args.remove( lastIndex ); if ( lastIndex==0 ) { return last.toString(); } final Object secondLast = args.get( lastIndex-1 ); final String nvl = "nvl(" + secondLast + ", " + last + ")"; args.set( lastIndex-1, nvl ); return render( argumentType, args, factory ); } }