ORMLite: How to join two tables without foreign key

Question

I have to join two independent tables in sqlite. They don't have any foreign key relationship.

Example:

• Table A has a field name
• Table B has a field primaryName

I want to do something like

select A.* from A inner join B on A.name = B.primaryName
    where A.id = 10 and B.address is null

ORMLite enforces foreign key, is there a way to do this in ORMLite?

Answer 1

Unfortunately the short answer is "not at this time". You can certainly use the raw query functionality to support this:

http://ormlite.com/docs/raw-queries

Edit:

This has [finally] been added ORMLite. It has been checked into trunk and will be in version 4.49. Here's the check-in on github:

https://github.com/j256/ormlite-core/commit/b37914d76fbbbbbc70d473be1cf1b6de19b847f5