Comments on: SOQL Builder

By: Carlo

Carlo — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:32:35 +0000

Another thing I might add (although you might already have implemented it as you’re working on the GROUP BY CUBE functionality) is that the latest version doesn’t seem to allow mixing fields with aggregate functions.

e.g. SELECT Department__c, COUNT(id) FROM Consultant__c GROUP BY Department__c

Otherwise, thanks for coming up with this. I’ve been using it a lot since I discovered it a few months ago.

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 02:39:56 +0000

Yes definitely. Right now SoqlBuilder probably supports 80 or 90% of what you can do in SOQL. The group by clause really evolved in version 18 of the API – there’s also GROUP BY CUBE and GROUP BY ROLLUP. Will try and add in the next few months. If you’d like to add sooner than that, please feel free!

By: Scott Wells

Scott Wells — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:26:36 +0000

Yeah, this is very, very nice for those of us who have to write dynamic SOQL. I noticed that SoqlBuilder only support single column GROUP BY but SOQL supports grouping by multiple columns, e.g.:

SELECT SUM(Price__c), SUM(Cost__c)
FROM SalesOrder__c
GROUP BY ProductFamily__c, Product__c

Any chance of adding that?

By: » apex-lang 1.15 released Richard Vanhook's Blog

» apex-lang 1.15 released Richard Vanhook's Blog — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:19:04 +0000

[...] you Joel Dietz for contributing to apex-lang! Joel added aggregate functions to SoqlBuilder and here is an explanation of those changes: [...]

By: Cyrus Amiri

Cyrus Amiri — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:27:19 +0000

This is fantastic! We had started working on a similar solution before noticing this post; Great stuff!

By: Abhinav Gupta

Abhinav Gupta — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:46:27 +0000

Good to see all this Object oriented stuff in Apex. Since I was away from Java for a while and working on Apex only, I am scared on governor limits all the times.

A really good set of classes to build SOQL dynamically, and equally good documentation too for start. Great job !

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:57:02 +0000

Glad you like it Manu! Yes, my twitter link was quite broken. Thanks for letting me know.

By: Manu

Manu — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:34:46 +0000

Richard, another great update – if only I had it for my last project where I was building crazy dynamic queries!
PS: Your twitter link on the site seems to be broken!

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:07:33 +0000

Just had someone else suggest that to me yesterday as well – I’ll add it!

By: Keith Clarke

Keith Clarke — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:45:41 +0000

Great to see some elegant code in the Apex world…

Have you considered adding a method that uses the SObjectType.getDescribe() to populate all the fields for the times when that is needed (governor limits and all)?