Method Expressions

A method expression is made up of the prefixes: findBy, findAllBy, countBy followed by the expression that combines a query upon one or more properties:

User.findBy{property}[Conditional=equal][Operator]?{property}[Conditional][Operator]
User.findAllBy{property}[Conditional=equal][Operator]?{property}[Conditional][Operator]
User.countBy{property}[Conditional=equal][Operator]?{property}[Conditional][Operator]

If a conditional keyword is not passed, we assume you want equality. Remember that!

IMPORTANT The ? means that you can concatenate the same pattern over and over again.

Conditionals

The available conditionals in ColdBox are:

• LessThanEquals - Less than or equal to passed value

• LessThan - Less than to passed value

• GreaterThanEquals - Greater than or equal to passed value

• GreaterThan - Greater than to passed value

• Like - Equivalent to the SQL like expression

• NotEqual - Not equal to the passed value

• isNull - The property must be null

• isNotNull - The property must not be null

• NotBetween - The property value must not be between two values

• Between - The property value must be between two values

• NotInList - The property value must not be in the passed in simple list or array

• inList - The property value must be in the passed in simple list or array

Operators

The only valid operators are:

• And

• Or