src/site/apt/example_pojo_datastores.apt

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 POJO datastores - Query your Java objects
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POJO datastores - Query your Java objects!

 With the <<MetaModel-pojo>> module of MetaModel you can use MetaModel's query engine to fire queries on a collection of regular Java objects (Java beans, Maps or arrays).
 
 Assume we have a Person class:

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public class Person {
  private String name;
  private int age;
  
  // getters and setters
}
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 And some list of persons:

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List<Person> persons = ...
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 You can easily wrap this collection in a PojoDataContext and query it like a database, for instance to get all the adult names:
 
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TableDataProvider<Person> provider = new ObjectTableDataProvider<Person>("persons",Person.class,persons);
DataContext dc = new PojoDataContext(provider);

DataSet ds = dc.query().from("persons").select("name").where("age").greaterThan(18).execute();
while (ds.next()) {
  Row row = ds.getRow();
  String name = (String) row.getValue(0);
  System.out.println(name);
}
ds.close();
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