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package org.hibernate.sql;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Map;

Author:Simon Johnston
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/** * @author Simon Johnston * @see org.hibernate.dialect.DerbyDialect */
public class DerbyCaseFragment extends CaseFragment {
From http://www.jroller.com/comments/kenlars99/Weblog/cloudscape_soon_to_be_derby

The problem we had, was when Hibernate does a select with a case statement, for joined subclasses. This seems to be because there was no else at the end of the case statement (other dbs seem to not mind).
/** * From http://www.jroller.com/comments/kenlars99/Weblog/cloudscape_soon_to_be_derby * <p/> * The problem we had, was when Hibernate does a select with a case statement, for joined subclasses. * This seems to be because there was no else at the end of the case statement (other dbs seem to not mind). */
public String toFragmentString() { StringBuilder buf = new StringBuilder( cases.size() * 15 + 10 ); buf.append( "case" ); //$NON-NLS-1 Iterator iter = cases.entrySet().iterator(); while ( iter.hasNext() ) { Map.Entry me = ( Map.Entry ) iter.next(); buf.append( " when " )//$NON-NLS-1 .append( me.getKey() ) .append( " is not null then " )//$NON-NLS-1 .append( me.getValue() ); } // null is not considered the same type as Integer. buf.append( " else -1" ); //$NON-NLS-1 buf.append( " end" ); //$NON-NLS-1 if ( returnColumnName != null ) { buf.append( " as " )//$NON-NLS-1 .append( returnColumnName ); } return buf.toString(); } }