Module: Sequel::SQL::ComplexExpressionMethods

Included in:
LiteralString, GenericExpression, Symbol
Defined in:
lib/sequel/sql.rb

Overview

Adds methods that allow you to treat an object as an instance of a specific ComplexExpression subclass. This is useful if another library overrides the methods defined by Sequel.

For example, if Symbol#/ is overridden to produce a string (for example, to make file system path creation easier), the following code will not do what you want:

:price/10 > 100

In that case, you need to do the following:

:price.sql_number/10 > 100

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#extract(datetime_part) ⇒ Object

Extract a datetime_part (e.g. year, month) from self:

:date.extract(:year) # SQL:  extract(year FROM "date")

Also has the benefit of returning the result as a NumericExpression instead of a generic ComplexExpression.

The extract function is in the SQL standard, but it doesn’t doesn’t use the standard function calling convention.



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# File 'lib/sequel/sql.rb', line 220

def extract(datetime_part)
  Function.new(:extract, PlaceholderLiteralString.new("#{datetime_part} FROM ?", [self])).sql_number
end

#sql_boolean ⇒ Object

Return a BooleanExpression representation of self.



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# File 'lib/sequel/sql.rb', line 225

def sql_boolean
  BooleanExpression.new(:NOOP, self)
end

#sql_number ⇒ Object

Return a NumericExpression representation of self.



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# File 'lib/sequel/sql.rb', line 230

def sql_number
  NumericExpression.new(:NOOP, self)
end

#sql_string ⇒ Object

Return a StringExpression representation of self.



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# File 'lib/sequel/sql.rb', line 235

def sql_string
  StringExpression.new(:NOOP, self)
end