ServiceStack AutoQuery and Field Term Or

Question

I am trying to change a few fields on an autoquery to query using or (it is a search box that is searching many fields). This doesn't seem to work although according to the documentation it should.

public class PropertyGet : QueryDb<DomainModel.Property>
{
    [QueryDbField(Term=QueryTerm.Or)]
    public string NameContains { get; set; }

    [QueryDbField(Term=QueryTerm.Or)]
    public string CityContains {get;set;}
}

However this does:

[QueryDb(QueryTerm.Or)]
 public class PropertyGet : QueryDb<DomainModel.Property>
    {
        public string NameContains { get; set; }
        public string CityContains {get;set;}
    }

Changing Querying Behavior

By default queries act like a filter and every condition is combined with AND boolean term to further filter the result-set. This can be changed to use an OR at the field-level by specifying Term=QueryTerm.Or modifier, e.g:

[QueryDbField(Term=QueryTerm.Or)] public string LastName { get; set; }

How can I do a field level Or query?

Answer 1

The issue is due to using a [QueryDbField] that relies on an implicit convention like "%Contains":

public class PropertyGet : QueryDb<DomainModel.Property>
{
    [QueryDbField(Term=QueryTerm.Or)]
    public string NameContains { get; set; }

    [QueryDbField(Term=QueryTerm.Or)]
    public string CityContains {get;set;}
}

Where when using [QueryDbField] you would override the implicit convention. I've changed the behavior in this commit where it now merges the behavior of both [QueryDbField] and the matching implicit convention so your query should now work as expected.

This change is available from v4.5.7+ that's now available on MyGet.