Thanks for this Andrus. One last question: Can I use db:-paths in EJBQL 
queries? Particularly, I’m attempting to use FK-columns (that aren’t exposed in 
the ObjEntity) in my queries, perhaps there’s another way?

Cheers,
- hugi



> On 15. ágú. 2016, at 15:31, Andrus Adamchik <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Ah yeah, now checking the code I am starting to remember. Arithmetic 
> expressions are not allowed in SELECT clause, only in WHERE. There's no real 
> reason for it other then us initially basing EJBQL parser on some early JPA 
> spec that probably didn't support it. We need to add it to the parser. For 
> now it won't work.
> 
> Andrus
> 
> 
>> On Aug 15, 2016, at 5:49 PM, Hugi Thordarson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Andrus,
>> 
>>> On 15. ágú. 2016, at 06:30, Andrus Adamchik <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Hugi,
>>> 
>>> Sorry for delayed reply. I swear we had the BNF for EJBQL in the docs, but 
>>> apparently we don't. Here is the closest thing to it - a JavaCC grammar:
>>> 
>>> https://github.com/apache/cayenne/blob/master/cayenne-server/src/main/jjtree/org/apache/cayenne/ejbql/EJBQLParser.jjt
>>> 
>>> We do support simple arithmetic operations. Search for 'arithmetic_' 
>>> clauses in the .jjt.
>> 
>> I’m not as smart as you think—I haven’t touched JavaCC grammar before, 
>> though I could figure it out but I don’t see how to do this :). Can you tell 
>> me how I can do something equivalent to “select e.price*e.quantity from 
>> Entry e”?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> - hugi
> 

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