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# findAll

Find all the entities for the specified query, named or positional arguments or by an example entity

## Returns

* This function returns *array*

## Arguments

| Key        | Type    | Required | Default               | Description                |
| ---------- | ------- | -------- | --------------------- | -------------------------- |
| query      | string  | No       | ---                   | The HQL Query to execute   |
| params     | any     | No       | \[runtime expression] | Named or positional params |
| offset     | numeric | No       | 0                     |                            |
| max        | numeric | No       | 0                     |                            |
| timeout    | numeric | No       | 0                     |                            |
| ignoreCase | boolean | No       | false                 |                            |
| datasource | string  | No       |                       |                            |
| asStream   | boolean | No       | false                 |                            |

## Examples

```javascript
// find all blog posts
ormService.findAll("Post");
// with a positional parameters
ormService.findAll("from Post as p where p.author=?",['Luis Majano']);
// 10 posts from Luis Majano staring from 5th post ordered by release date
ormService.findAll("from Post as p where p.author=? order by p.releaseDate",['Luis majano'],offset=5,max=10);

// Using paging params
var query = "from Post as p where p.author='Luis Majano' order by p.releaseDate" 
// first 20 posts 
ormService.findAll(query=query,max=20) 
// 20 posts starting from my 15th entry
ormService.findAll(query=query,max=20,offset=15);

// examples with named parameters
ormService.findAll("from Post as p where p.author=:author", {author='Luis Majano'})
ormService.findAll("from Post as p where p.author=:author", {author='Luis Majano'}, max=20, offset=5);

// query by example
user = ormService.new(entityName="User",firstName="Luis");
ormService.findAll( example=user );
```


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