Adding a custom property to an entity

To add a custom property to an entity, all we need to do is add the property on the EntityPropertyRegistryBuilder of the entity.

In the following example we will add a property named customProperty of the type String, which always returns myCustomString.

@Override
public void configure( EntitiesConfigurationBuilder configuration ) {
       configuration.withType(MyEntity.class)
                .properties(props -> props.property("customProperty")
                           .propertyType(TypeDescriptor.valueOf(String.class))
                           .valueFetcher(entity -> "myCustomString")

                     )
}

Configuring the custom property to expand it’s search to other properties

To expand the search to other properties, we need to modify the query defined by the custom property. To do this we can add an a custom EntityQueryConditionTranslator under the EntityQueryConditionTranslator.class attribute.

In the following example, we will perform the query of the customProperty on the name and content properties.

@Override
public void configure( EntitiesConfigurationBuilder configuration ) {
       configuration.withType(MyEntity.class)
                .properties(props -> props.property("customProperty")
                           .propertyType(TypeDescriptor.valueOf(String.class))
                           .valueFetcher((entity) -> "myCustomString")
                           .attribute( EntityQueryConditionTranslator.class,
                                                            condition -> {
                                                                EntityQuery entityQuery = new EntityQuery();
                                                                entityQuery.setOperand( EntityQueryOps.OR );
                                                                entityQuery.add(
                                                                        new EntityQueryCondition( "name",
                                                                                                  condition.getOperand(),
                                                                                                  condition.getArguments() ) );
                                                                entityQuery.add(
                                                                        new EntityQueryCondition( "content", condition.getOperand(),
                                                                                                  condition.getArguments() ) );
                                                                return entityQuery;
                                                            } )

                     )
}