Package org.apache.olingo.odata2.api.uri.expression

Interface OrderExpression

All Superinterfaces:

CommonExpression, Visitable

All Known Implementing Classes:

OrderExpressionImpl

public interface OrderExpression
extends CommonExpression

Represents a order expression in the expression tree

A order expression node is inserted in the expression tree for any valid OData order. For example for "$orderby=age desc, name asc" two order expression node will be inserted into the expression tree

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
CommonExpression	getExpression()
SortOrder	getSortOrder()

Methods inherited from interface org.apache.olingo.odata2.api.uri.expression.CommonExpression

getEdmType, getKind, getUriLiteral, setEdmType

Methods inherited from interface org.apache.olingo.odata2.api.uri.expression.Visitable

accept

Method Details

getSortOrder

SortOrder getSortOrder()

Returns:

Returns the sort order (ascending or descending) of the order expression

getExpression

CommonExpression getExpression()

Returns:

Returns the expression node which defines the data used to order the output send back to the client. In the simplest case this would be a PropertyExpression.

See Also:

• CommonExpression