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/* * Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java * * License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 2.1 or later. * See the lgpl.txt file in the root directory or <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html>. */ 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.StandardBasicTypes; import org.hibernate.type.Type; /** * Emulation of <tt>locate()</tt> on PostgreSQL * * @author Gavin King */ public class PositionSubstringFunction implements SQLFunction { @Override public boolean hasArguments() { return true; } @Override public boolean hasParenthesesIfNoArguments() { return true; } @Override public Type getReturnType(Type firstArgumentType, Mapping mapping) throws QueryException { return StandardBasicTypes.INTEGER; } @Override public String render(Type firstArgumentType, List args, SessionFactoryImplementor factory) throws QueryException { final boolean threeArgs = args.size() > 2; final Object pattern = args.get(0); final Object string = args.get(1); final Object start = threeArgs ? args.get(2) : null; final StringBuilder buf = new StringBuilder(); if (threeArgs) { buf.append('('); } buf.append("position(").append(pattern).append(" in "); if (threeArgs) { buf.append("substring("); } buf.append(string); if (threeArgs) { buf.append(", ").append(start).append(')'); } buf.append(')'); if (threeArgs) { buf.append('+').append(start).append("-1)"); } return buf.toString(); } }