spring-data-mongo - optional query parameters?

Question

I am using spring-data mongo with the JSON based query methods, and am unsure how to allow optional parameters in a search query.

For instance - say I had the foll

Answer 1

You might be interested in providing feedback or vote on this issue: https://jira.springsource.org/browse/DATAJPA-209

It deals with exactly this problem., except for SD JPA. Seems like it'd be appropriate for many other SD subprojects.

Answer 2

To implement this in Boolean logic I do the following and the conversion to operations that are available in programming languages

:query != null -> field == :query
!(:query != null) || (field == :query)
(:query == null) || (field == :query)

In plain SQL, this is done as

where (null = :query) or (field = :query)

In MongoDB this is done through the $where

{ $where: '?0 == null || this.field == ?0' } 

We can speed this up a little by using Mongo Operations rather than building everything to the function at the expense of some readability. does not work unfortunately.

{ $or : [ { $where: '?0 == null' } , { field : ?0 } ] } 

So what you have is

@Query("{ $or : [ { $where: '?0 == null' } , { field : ?0 } ] }")
List<Something> findAll(String query, Pageable pageable);

This can be further expanded to handle arrays for in/all clauses

@Query("{ $or : [ { $where: '?0.length == 0' } , { field : { $in : ?0 } } ] }")
List<Something> findAll(String query, Pageable pageable);