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    <p>I've searched long and hard for an answer, but I haven't had any luck so far. I'm trying to retrieve and sort a list of objects via a JPQL query, but since the query itself uses a lot of joins between different tables, it's really difficult.</p> <p>Basically, we have an entity "Person" with the fields</p> <pre><code>String name List&lt;Telephone&gt; phones List&lt;Email&gt; emails List&lt;Address&gt; addresses </code></pre> <p>"Telephone", "Email", and "Address" are all separate Entities, each containing its own data, like a String field "number" or something similar (Address.street, Address.state). So all four of these objects are tables in the database.</p> <p>I want the user to be able to sort a list of Persons by any particular data. Right now, I want to sort by any one of the following: the Person's name, the first email address in the emails list, by the street or state of the person's first address, and so on. So if a list of Persons is of the following:</p> <pre><code>Name Phone Number Street State Mack 555-1234 1 Main Street WA Andy 222-9999 2 Other Way RI Wendy 222-3333 3 Wrong Way UT </code></pre> <p>and I want the table to be sorted by State, the list should be:</p> <pre><code>Name Phone Number Street State Andy 222-9999 2 Other Way RI Wendy 222-3333 3 Wrong Way UT Mack 555-1234 1 Main Street WA </code></pre> <p>I want this to be done using a JPQL query so a list is already filtered and sorted when it's given to the web server to optimize performance. I must also add that I am implementing a search feature that searches all these "columns" for a particular term.</p> <p>Long story short, how do I write a JPQL query such that a can obtain a list of Person objects that have been sorted for one of these columns? My implementation of "SELECT DISTINCT":</p> <pre><code>SELECT DISTINCT x FROM Person x, IN(x.phones) phones ORDER BY phones.number </code></pre> <p>doesn't work since the result table requires to have the column being sorted (which is invalid because it causes the list to not qualify as a list of Person objects), and I can't seem to use nested SELECT statements to generate the result set and then pull a list of Person objects from that. Is there any easy way to do this?</p>
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