On 13.03.2010, at 08:01, blargy wrote:

> 
> I was actually able to accomplish (althought not pretty) what I wanted using
> a regex transformer.
> 
>  <entity name="item"
>            transformer="RegexTransformer"
>            query="select *, 'valueA, valueB' values from items">
>    <field column="myMultiValueField"  sourceColName="values" splitBy=","/>
>  </entity>


Nice approach. In MySQL you also have a handy function that might come into 
play in your use case:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/group-by-functions.html#function_group-concat

This lets you do a group by and then concatenate all the values in the group 
into a string.

regards,
Lukas Kahwe Smith
m...@pooteeweet.org



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