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orderBy(...) does not generate fully-qualified column name #961

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🐞 Bug Report: orderBy(...) does not generate fully-qualified column name

Version: mybatis-dynamic-sql: 1.5.2

Problem Description

When using .orderBy(FavoriteDynamicSqlSupport.favoriteTable.createdAt.descending()) in a multi-table join, the generated SQL is:

ORDER BY created_at DESC

Even though both tables (detail_table and favorite_table) have a created_at column, the generated SQL does not qualify the column with its table alias or name.

This causes SQL to sort by the wrong created_at column or leads to ambiguity in some databases.


Example Java DSL

List<Detail> details = detailMapper.select(dsl ->
    dsl.join(FavoriteDynamicSqlSupport.favoriteTable)
        .on(DetailDynamicSqlSupport.detailId, equalTo(FavoriteDynamicSqlSupport.detailId))
        .where(FavoriteDynamicSqlSupport.userId, isEqualTo(userId))
        .and(DetailDynamicSqlSupport.someTagId, isEqualTo(request.getSomeTagId()))
        .and(DetailDynamicSqlSupport.deletedState, isEqualTo(false))
        .orderBy(FavoriteDynamicSqlSupport.favoriteTable.createdAt.descending())
);

Expected SQL

ORDER BY favorite_table.created_at DESC

Actual SQL

ORDER BY created_at DESC

Workaround (verbose):

.orderBy(FavoriteDynamicSqlSupport.createdAt
    .as(FavoriteDynamicSqlSupport.favoriteTable.tableNameAtRuntime() + "." + FavoriteDynamicSqlSupport.createdAt.name())
    .descending())

But this is not elegant or maintainable.


Suggestion

Add support for auto-prefixing table name or alias when calling:

.orderBy(FavoriteDynamicSqlSupport.favoriteTable.createdAt.descending())

Or introduce a utility method like:

.orderBy(FavoriteDynamicSqlSupport.createdAt.qualifiedWith("favorite_table").descending())

Summary

This makes .orderBy() unsafe when columns are not unique across joined tables, and breaks expected behavior. Please consider addressing this in the next patch version.

Thanks for your great work on this library!

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