GWT and JPA

[Debapriya Dutta]

We have two entities:
Entity A and Entity B. Entity B has a foreign key from Entity A. In the client we have a celltable populated with data from Entity A and there is a column that reference how many Entity B elements exist for each Entity A row.

Is there an easy way to fetch the count of entity B records for each entity A and then have it be a sortable column?

Thanks in advance. I am sorry if the question is a little vague - it's kind of sensitive work information that I am not sure I can explain in too great a detail.

Priya

[Maneesh Godbole]

From the UI perspective, it does not matter how your data is generated, so I will move this question to a more appropriate forum for you.

[James Sutherland]

There are two ways,

1 - just access A's collection of B's and get the size. To optimize how the bs are loaded you can use join fetching, or batch fetching.

2 - Use a count in your query, "Select a, count(b) from A a join a.bs b where ..."